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Gene Therapy Rapidly Improves Night Vision in Adults with Congenital Blindness

Posted on: 11 October 2022, source: Penn MedicineDNA
Adults with a genetic form of childhood-onset blindness experienced striking recoveries of night vision within days of receiving an experimental gene therapy, according to researchers at the Scheie Eye Institute in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The patients had Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), a congenital blindness caused by mutations in the gene GUCY2D