Leber Congenital Amaurosis
Model of rare childhood blindness holds promise for preventive therapies
Published in Health and Medicine Week, January 3rd, 2005
This finding, from investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Columbia University, was published in Molecular Brain Research.
The model for this disease, called Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), is especially important because no treatments are currently available to prevent it. There are not enough patients to enroll in large clinical trials to test new prevention treatments; therefore, any potential new therapy must...
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