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Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 1:53 pm Post subject: Scientists Use New Engineered Virus to Restore Sight |
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Researchers have engineered a new adeno-associated virus that could greatly expand gene therapy to help restore sight to patients with blinding diseases like retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration.
Over the last six years, several teams of scientists have successfully treated people with a rare inherited eye disease by...read more |
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