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News items on 'Congenital And Inherited Eye Disorders'

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Eye gene therapy boost for young

(BBC 24/10/2009)

Gene therapy can be particularly effective in treating inherited sight problems in children, fresh trials show. US doctors treating 12 patients with a rare genetic eye disorder were able to significantly improve vision in the youngest. The study, published in The Lancet, builds on work carried out by doctors at London's Moorfields Eye Hospital. The eye is proving to be a particularly successful target for gene therapy.

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