In the clinical trial, the gene therapy seemed to be helping the boy’s skin wounds heal. But, his doctors wondered, could it also help his eyes? The boy, Antonio Vento Carvajal, had a genetic ...

The vision of people with a rare inherited condition that causes them to lose much of their sight early in childhood was 100 times better after they received gene therapy to address the genetic ...

A teen with dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, or "butterfly disease," was legally blind but has now had his sight restored with gene therapy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

At New Vision Therapy & Wellness, we marry Mental Health with Faith and Wellness. Our team of licensed therapists provides compassionate, culturally responsive, and faith-informed care designed to ...

Bothnia dystrophy is a form of hereditary blindness, prevalent in the region Västerbotten in Sweden. A new study at Karolinska Institutet published in Nature Communications shows that gene therapy can ...

CHICAGO -- A mutation-agnostic gene therapy for retinitis pigmentosa (RP) showed promise for improving vision in severely vision-impaired and blind patients, a randomized clinical trial showed. After ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . MCO-010, a mutation-agnostic gene therapy, demonstrated vision improvement in retinitis pigmentosa. Nanoscope ...

Gene therapy may restore vision to children and adults robbed of their sight by a rare inherited condition called Leber congenital amaurosis, researchers report. The illness is caused by mutations in ...

Hairston said she considers vision therapy like occupational therapy.<P> St. Mary's public schools, like most public schools, do not provide vision therapy service to students.<P> Melissa Charbonnet, ...

An investigational gene therapy has shown promise for improving functional vision and restoring light detection in long-dormant rods and cones in the retina in adults and children with a rare form of ...

Scientists in the UK have successfully used gene therapy to restore some vision to legally blind children with an inherited retinal condition. All 11 children in the clinical trial saw improvements ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) gradually affects central vision in one or both eyes while leaving peripheral vision (on the sides) intact. This peripheral vision – encompassing everything you ...