UK study eyes genetic fix on blindness
Experimental procedure attempts to find cure for genetic problem that affect mostly male patients.
Published On 16 Jan 2014
Scientists in the United Kingdom have managed to restore sight in people born with a previously incurable form of blindness.
They have used gene therapy to help people with Choroideremia, which affects an estimated one in 50,000 people – mostly men.
The experimental study attempts to correct the underlying gene defect of the patients, and modify it.
Al Jazeera’s Emma Hayward reports from Oxford.
Source: Al Jazeera