| Ophthalmology/Optometry - Gene therapy to the inner retina prevents blindness in Cln3-deficient mice |
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The latest ophthalmology / optometry news from News Medical |
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 | | |  Researchers develop new gene therapy for congenital blindness Retinitis pigmentosa is the most prevalent form of congenital blindness. Using a retinitis pigmentosa mouse model, researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now shown that targeted activation of genes of similar function can compensate for the primary defect. | |
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| | |  Karolinska Institutet and St. Erik Eye Hospital in Sweden have entered into a collaboration with Novo Nordisk A/S to develop a new treatment for age-related macular degeneration. | | | | |  New insight on how people with retinal degenerative disease can maintain their night vision for a relatively long period of time has been published today in the open-access eLife journal. | | | | |  Children wearing multifocal contact lenses had slower progression of their myopia, according to results from a clinical trial funded by the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. | | | | |  University of Toronto Engineering researchers have developed a new method of injecting healthy cells into damaged eyes. | |
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