Posts Tagged ‘Retinitis Pigmentosa’
Alcoholism Drug Restores Vision in Mice with Retinal Degeneration
Antabuse, an alcoholism treatment, may also be treatment for macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa.
Read MoreHow Does Gene Therapy Work?
Gene therapy is an investigational but exciting method by which diseases may actually be cured…even blindness.
Read MoreLuxturna | First Gene Therapy Treats Blindness
First patient to receive Luxturna was a 13 year old boy with Leber’s congenital amaurosis, a heritable form of blindness due to defective copies of RPE65 genes.
Read MoreGene Therapy Cures Blindness
Two types of inherited blindness due to defective retinal genes may be curable with gene therapy. Read about this exciting recent development.
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