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Optogenetic therapy
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Partial recovery of visual function in a blind patient after optogenetic therapy

May 24, 2021
Sahel, JA., Boulanger-Scemama, E., Pagot, C. et al. Partial recovery of visual function in a blind patient after optogenetic therapy. Nat Med (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01351-4 Abstract Optogenetics may enable mutation-independent, circuit-specific restoration of neuronal function in neurological diseases. Retinitis pigmentosa is a neurodegenerative eye disease where loss of photoreceptors can lead to complete blindness. In a blind patient, we combined...
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May

For the First Time, Optogenetic Therapy Partially Restores Patient’s Vision

May 24, 2021
Source https://www.pittwire.pitt.edu/news/first-time-optogenetic-therapy-partially-restores-patient-s-vision Optogenetic therapy, or manipulating proteins and cells with light, is an advanced technology developed in the early 2000s that drove major discoveries about the inner workings of our brains. Yet, while actively researched in experimental animals, functional improvement using this method was never reported in humans—until now. In a paper published today in Nature...
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