Promising results of gene therapy to treat diseases of the eye

Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 22:14 in Health & Medicine

The easy accessibility of the eye and the established link between specific genetic defects and ocular disorders offer hope for using gene therapy to provide long-term therapeutic benefit. Two new reports describe the effective replacement of a human gene to preserve photoreceptor function in a mouse model of severe retinal degeneration.

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