Lighting up nerves could help people with eye condition Retinitis Pigmentosa

Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 06:42 in Health & Medicine

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are developing a new genetic engineering technique called optogenetics that they hope could ultimately lead to a new treatment for people with the eye condition Retinitis Pigmentosa, in a £2 million funded project announced today, involving researchers from Imperial College London and European partners.

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