Frontiers of Medicine: Radical Cures
Doctors seek inspiration from unexpected sources to work toward solving some of medicine's toughest challenges Blindness, brain cancer, vegetative states: These are among the most hopeless conditions without cures-yet. Now doctors are turning to unorthodox methods to solve some of medicine's most intractable challenges. The early results are in, and they look promising. RESTORING SIGHT Challenge: A genetic disease degrades sight in children and blinds them by adulthood. Radical Cure: Replace the defective genes with healthy ones. Status: Three to five years to FDA approval Tami Morehouse was afraid to open her eyes at the sound of her alarm clock every morning. Her vision had deteriorated to a brown haze over the past three years. She couldn't tell the sky from the ocean or make out people's faces. The 45-year-old mother of three knew that, eventually, she would wake up one day and her world would be black. But a couple of weeks after doctors...