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Restoring Sight with Gene Therapy Friday, May 29, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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Several years ago, when Ed Boyden developed a novel technology to make nerve cells sensitive to light, he knew that it would rapidly catch on in the research world. But Boyden, now a neuroscientist at MIT, also wanted to employ the technology to help treat patients, using it to activate specific neurons damaged in different diseases, such as some forms of blindness and Parkinson's. Boyden is moving toward that goal much faster than many scientists expected. (source: technologyreview.com)
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