Team led by Scripps scientists increases understanding of two types of blindness
Saturday, February 7, 2009 - 07:35
in Health & Medicine
Though based on mouse studies, the research bolsters the idea that humans suffering from these and other eye conditions may be able to help preserve function by adding antioxidants to their diet, and explains why this would work. The team also devised a new cell-based gene therapy technique that could eventually offer another option for arresting vision loss from these diseases...
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