{"id":207008,"date":"2025-02-22T22:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T04:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/gene-therapy-experiment-treats-rare-childhood-blindness"},"modified":"2025-02-22T22:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T04:02:21","slug":"gene-therapy-experiment-treats-rare-childhood-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/gene-therapy-experiment-treats-rare-childhood-blindness","title":{"rendered":"Gene therapy experiment treats rare childhood blindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gene-therapy-experiment-treats-rare-childhood-blindness.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Science and Technology: Gene Therapy apparently Cure Blindness in Children.<\/p>\n<p>S eye, very early in life, to treat a severe form of the condition.\u2018.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An experimental trial of gene therapy has helped four toddlers \u2014 born with one of the most severe forms of childhood blindness \u2014 gain \u201clife-changing improvements\u201d to their sight, according to doctors at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.<\/p>\n<p>The rare genetic condition means the babies\u2019 vision deteriorated very rapidly from birth.<\/p>\n<p>Before the therapy, they were registered legally blind and only just able to distinguish between dark and light. After the infusion, all parents reported improvements \u2014 with some of their young children now able to begin to draw and write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science and Technology: Gene Therapy apparently Cure Blindness in Children. S eye, very early in life, to treat a severe form of the condition.\u2018. An experimental trial of gene therapy has helped four toddlers \u2014 born with one of the most severe forms of childhood blindness \u2014 gain \u201clife-changing improvements\u201d to their sight, according to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":695,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/695"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}