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Gene Therapy Restores Sight
News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Nov 3, 2009 9:35 AM EST
Article Source: The New York Timesadvertisement
The boy relied on a cane and adults to guide him, and, unable to see blackboard writing, sat in back with a teacher's aide, large-type computer screen and materials in Braille.
Legally blind, Corey was expected eventually to lose all sight. Then, 13 months ago, after his eighth birthday, he underwent an experimental gene therapy procedure, receiving an injection in his left eye.
His vision in that eye improved quickly. Now 9, Corey plays Little League baseball, drives go-carts, navigates wooded trails near his home in Hadley, N.Y., and reads the blackboard in class. "It's gotten, like, really better," he said.
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In a burst of new research on restoring sight, gene therapy is one of the methods closest to achieving results, but it will not help everyone because some eye diseases destroy photoreceptor cells, which are crucial for allowing gene therapy to work. Also, specific genes must be identified for different strains of diseases.
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#1 - Tue Nov 3, 2009 9:36 AM EST{"commentId":10446744,"authorDomain":"MinnieApolis"}
What a wonderful advance for the blind. It is a little complicated with having to develop a different therapy for each eye disease, but still, I am so glad for that young boy that he is having fun like a normal kid now.
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#2 - Tue Nov 3, 2009 12:26 PM EST{"commentId":10451585,"authorDomain":"CarlZup"}
Wow, lucky kid.
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