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Gene Therapy Injected Into Eyeball Restores Blind Patient’s Vision – Futurism
One patient backed out over side effect-related concerns — accidentally causing a major discovery.
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A blind patient regained their vision for over a year after getting a single injection of an experimental gene therapy directly into their eye.
The treatment uses RNA molecules that can infiltrate cells and reverse a specific mutation linked to Leber congenital amaurosis, an eye disease that causes blindness early in life, according to research published Thursday in the journal Nature Medicine. And interestingly, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine…
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