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Gene Therapy For Blindness Improves Vision Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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All three people who received gene therapy at the University of Florida to treat a rare, incurable form of blindness have regained some of their vision, according to a paper published online today in Human Gene Therapy. The patients volunteered to test the safety of an experimental gene-transfer technique in a phase 1 clinical research study conducted by UF and the University of Pennsylvania with support from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health. (source: news.ufl.edu)
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