Lebers-congenital-amaurosis - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community http://www.instablogs.com/lebers-congenital-amaurosis/ Lebers-congenital-amaurosis - Latest Popular Stories powered by Instablogs Community. http://www.instablogs.com/site-img/insta-slogo.gif Instablogs Community http://www.instablogs.com/lebers-congenital-amaurosis/ en-us Instascript 2.0 http://www.instablogs.com Fri, 04 May 2007 16:05:58 +0000 World's first blindness treatment by injecting genes in eyes conducted http://irani.instablogs.com/entry/worlds-first-blindness-treatment-by-injecting-genes-in-eyes-conducted/ http://irani.instablogs.com/entry/worlds-first-blindness-treatment-by-injecting-genes-in-eyes-conducted/ Irani

A 1975 global data analysis on blindness reveals the shocking number of 28 million blind people across the world. And it has been estimated that the rise in global population and ageing would leave 58 million blind in 2010 and 75 million blind by...

]]> A 1975 global data analysis on blindness reveals the shocking number of 28 million blind people across the world. And it has been estimated that the rise in global population and ageing would leave 58 million blind in 2010 and 75 million blind by 2020!...

]]> Fri, 04 May 2007 16:05:58 +0000 blindness treatment injecting genesblindnessMoorfields Eye Hospital in LondonRobert Johnson World's first clinical trials of gene therapy for curing childhood blindness set to begin http://gautam.instablogs.com/entry/worlds-first-clinical-trials-of-gene-therapy-for-curing-childhood-blindness-set-to-begin/ http://gautam.instablogs.com/entry/worlds-first-clinical-trials-of-gene-therapy-for-curing-childhood-blindness-set-to-begin/ Gautam

The first trials for curing childhood blindness would be started by UK scientists and the gene therapy treatment would be tested on people suffering from rare inherited form of blindness in which case a single defective gene is responsible...

]]> The first trials for curing childhood blindness would be started by UK scientists and the gene therapy treatment would be tested on people suffering from rare inherited form of blindness in which case a single defective gene is responsible for...

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