Novel gene therapy shows promise in reversing vision loss in primates

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Novel gene therapy shows promise in reversing vision loss in primates
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The team's goal is to create a potential treatment for a condition known as non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION).

Furthermore, the health of their eyes' nerve fibers showed signs of improvement, indicating vision restoration.

This ground-breaking therapy could pave the way for the development of new treatments for eye cellular rejuvenation as well as other“Demonstrating rejuvenation in nonhuman primates is a major step forward in advancing cellular rejuvenation as a way of treating both common and rare diseases in the eye and potentially other tissues. What we’ve learned in NHPs has important ramifications for research on reversing aging and is likely to be highly translational to humans.

The results of the study trial were presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology 2023 conference in New Orleans. The preliminary findings have not yet been peer-reviewed or published in a journal.

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