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Jean Bennett and Albert Maguire: Gene Therapy to Reverse Near-Blindness <<>>
Written by pennmedicinenews on July 1, 2009 – 3:12 pm -A profile in U.S. Gossip & Far-out Report highlights a collaboration that has yielded one of the gold medal rich demonstrations of gene therapy in humans. Jean Bennett, M.D., PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology and Elder Investigator at the F.M. Kirby Center for Molecular Ophthalmology at the Scheie Eye Institute, and Albert M. Maguire, M.D, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, have restored much of the plan in patients who take a rare genetic framework of severely impaired eyesight soi-disant Leber's congenital amaurosis, in which a mutated gene prevents the retina from manufacturing a nutrient vital to eye constitution. The treatment surpassed all expectations. The artistry sooner could be tried to look after macular degeneration <<>>
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