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A genetic therapy has improved the vision of patients who would otherwise have gone blind. (bbc.com)
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autotldr 1 points 7y ago
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> There is so much that I can do and do the things that I have actually wanted to and continue to do the things I really enjoyJoe Pepper, Gene therapy participant.
> The gene therapy has been tried out on 14 patients in the UK and 18 in the US, Canada and Germany over the past four and a half years.
> "The concept of gene therapy is that it corrects gene defects. Ideally we should only have to do that once, because once the DNA is corrected and inserted into the correct cell, that cell should be able to continue its function as normal," he told BBC News.
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> There is so much that I can do and do the things that I have actually wanted to and continue to do the things I really enjoyJoe Pepper, Gene therapy participant.
> The gene therapy has been tried out on 14 patients in the UK and 18 in the US, Canada and Germany over the past four and a half years.
> "The concept of gene therapy is that it corrects gene defects. Ideally we should only have to do that once, because once the DNA is corrected and inserted into the correct cell, that cell should be able to continue its function as normal," he told BBC News.
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