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Gene Psychotherapy Transforms Eyesight of 12 Born with Rare Failing <<>>
Written by pennmedicinenews on October 26, 2009 – 3:54 pm -A sanctum sanctorum in The Lancet conducted by researchers from Penn and CHOP tempered to gene group therapy to safely benefit wraith in five children and seven adults with Leber’s congenital amaurosis, a transferable blinding disease. The greatest improvements occurred in the children, all of whom are now able to handle a low-light bar path. Elder designer Jean Bennett, MD, PhD, F.M. Kirby professor of Ophthalmology, and co-first authors Albert M. Maguire, MD, associate professor of Ophthalmology and Katherine A. High, MD, supervisor of the Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, at CHOP, as spurt as the youngest patient, Corey Haas, appeared in numerous nationwide and global outlets, including the Los Angeles TImes <<>>
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