Experimental Treatment Restores Some Vision

Scientists for the first time have used gene therapy to dramatically improve sight in people with a rare form of blindness. Experts called this a major advance for the experimental technique. Some vision was restored in four of the six young people who got the treatment. Two of the volunteers who could only see hand motions were able to read a few lines of an eye chart within weeks.It is a phenomenal breakthrough and if successful in larger numbers, the technique has the potential to reverse blindness from other kinds of inherited eye diseases. "It is incredibly exciting" said Dr. Jean Bennett, a professor of ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania."It is the beginning of a whole new phase of studies." I think this is a great development, don't you?