A pioneering therapy could prevent thousands of people from going blind through old age.
The treatment, which involves a single injection, has been found to help restore the sight of people who are suffering from inherited eye disease.
Its success in helping two men who were told they would go blind ‘surpassed expectations’ and it could be used to help the hundreds of thousands of people losing their sight through more common, age-related blindness in future.
Early findings suggest it promotes an improvement for patients on the verge of losing their sight.
It appears to have halted progression of choroideremia, which is caused by a gene defect that destroys light-sensing cells in the retina at the back of the eye.
SOURCE-DAILYM
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