...after a single injection of genes that produce light-sensitive pigments in the back of his eye, he sits in front with classmates and participates in class without extra help. In the playground, he joins his classmates in playing his first game of softball.
His treatment represents the next step toward medical science's goal of using gene therapy to cure disease. Extending a preliminary study published last year on three young adults, the full study reports successful, sustained results that showed notable improvement in children with congenital blindness.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Curing Congenital Blindness
Researchers in Philadelphia have developed a successful gene therapy that has drastically improved vision in a group of young and middle aged people legally blind from birth.
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