Sentences with phrase «retinal cell and gene therapy»

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A new gene therapy treatment has restored some sight in a handful of blind patients suffering from Leber's congenital amaurosis, a syndrome in which, because of a broken or missing gene called RPE65, retinal photoreceptor cells malfunction and eventually die.

In recent years, scientists have grown new retinal cells from stem cells and shown progress in developing an effective gene therapy.

Dominic Eberle (Ader, TUD)-- «Cell transplantation and gene therapy approaches for the treatment of retinal degenerative disorders» (2012)

Many of the most promising approaches fall into four categories: the retinal prosthetic, gene therapy, stem cell treatments, and a technique that uses optogenetics, a way to engineer nerves to fire in response to bursts of light.

Some researchers seek gene therapies that might act more broadly on retinal cells, perhaps by using genes that produce proteins supporting the growth and health of nerve cells, which could be delivered before significant vision loss occurs.