Gene therapy sets stage for new treatments for inherited blindness

Friday, April 30, 2010 - 05:00 in Health & Medicine

Veterinary vision scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have safely and successfully used a viral vector in targeting a class of photoreceptors of the retina called rods, a critical first step in developing gene therapies for inherited blindness caused by rod degeneration...

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