Here’s some exciting news about gene therapy and a potential cure for two types of inherited blindness. One injection may restore vision.
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Gene Therapy Prevents Blindness
Here’s some exciting news about gene therapy and a potential cure for two types of inherited blindness. One injection may restore vision.
The post Gene Therapy Prevents Blindness appeared first on Retina Specialist | Fairfax, Virginia | Retinal Diseas…
Gene Therapy Prevents Blindness
Here’s some exciting news about gene therapy and a potential cure for two types of inherited blindness. One injection may restore vision.
The post Gene Therapy Prevents Blindness appeared first on Retina Specialist | Fairfax, Virginia | Retinal Diseas…
The Complexity Of Gene Therapy For Congenital Blindness
Independent clinical trials, including one conducted at the Scheie Eye Institute at the Perelman School of Medicine, have reported safety and efficacy for Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a congenital form of blindness caused by mutations in a gene (R…
Potential Major Breakthrough in Treatment of Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration
A single injection of a new gene therapy treatment from Avalanche Biotech could possibly stop the advance of neovascularization in the wet form of AMD for several years. Human clinical trials are currently underway. Here is how I commented about this breakthrough in my writeup: “If this approach is successful, it could result in a […]
A Novel Gene Therapy Approach to Treating the Wet Form of AMD: The BioFactoryTM From Avalanche Biotech
I originally contacted this company in November 2010, when they were still in “stealth mode” and weren’t able to share details about what they were doing. Recently, the company got back in touch to provide an update, having announced, in December 2…
Gene Therapy in Ophthalmology Update 6: First-Ever Clinical Trial for the Autosomal Recessive Form of Retinitis Pigmentosa (arRP) is Underway
It has been difficult keeping up with the changing world of gene therapy in ophthalmology, but thanks to the Foundation Fighting Blindness, I learned yesterday about this new, and first clinical study for treating a rare form of retinitis pigmentosa, u…
The Use of Gene Therapy in Treating Retinitis Pigmentosa and Dry AMD
A short while ago, I received a message from someone I did not know, who said that he enjoyed the writeups on my online Journal and was wondering if I might be interested in writing about the use of gene therapy as an approach to vision restoration. Si…