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Gene Therapy Shows Promise in Congential Blindness Patients by Angela Mohan on April 20, 2021 at 11:14 AM New gene therapy for a congenital blindness was found to be safe and improved patients' vision, according to a clinical trial led by researchers at the Scheie Eye Institute in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. This gene therapy delivers copies of GUCY2D gene to the eyes of patients who have severe vision impairments caused by mutations in the gene, according to the study, published in the journal iScience. "We found sustained improveme...