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From: Doc Bones8/15/2009 9:33:50 PM
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Gene Therapy Treatment for Blindness Proves Safe--and Effective--One Year In

Three subjects with a rare form of visual impairment found their sight still better a year after gene therapy, and their immune systems seemed happy with the treatment, too

By Katherine Harmon
August 14, 2009


Gene therapy has been rhapsodized and vilified in its nearly two decades of human testing, helping some and making others sicker. But a new 12-month clinical trial has shown that, at least in one ocular disease, it appears safe and—perhaps even more impressive—effective.

The research, part of a phase I clinical trial to test the safety of the treatment, was published as a letter to the editor in The New England Journal of Medicine

content.nejm.org

earlier this week and will be in the September issue of Human Gene Therapy.

scientificamerican.com
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