FDA approves another gene therapy, this time for treating inherited vision loss

It's been a truly historic year for modern medicine with the FDA for the first time approving several gene therapies for public use. The latest approval, this time for treating a rare form of inherited vision loss, marks 2017 as a milestone year in the field of medicine.

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Category: Medical

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• Blindness
• Eye
• FDA
• Genetics
• Vision

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