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#^Gene Therapy Restores Vision in Patients with Inherited Blindness“For her entire life, college student Olivia Cook had only a small degree of central vision. It was as if she was watching the world through a straw hole, and in dimly lit places, she could not make out people’s faces, only their silhouettes.
But after receiving an experimental gene-editing treatment to one of her eyes, she now can see things she never saw before.
Cook was born with an inherited retinal disorder that causes blindness, a rare type of eye disorder historically called Leber congenital amaurosis or LCA. A few years ago, she decided to participate in a clinical trial that involved using the gene-editing tool CRISPR to correct the form of inherited blindness that she has…
This study is the first time that CRISPR has been used in the eyes of living people.
‘The results of this study provide proof of concept that CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing can be used safely and effectively to treat inherited retinal disorders,’ said the study’s first author Dr. Eric Pierce.”
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