A New Approach to a Rare, Incurable Form of Blindness
A collaboration among four McPherson ERI member labs has resulted in a proof-of-concept method to correct an inherited form of macular degeneration that causes blindness and is currently untreatable. The research, which focused on Best disease and was led by Divya Sinha, an Assistant Scientist in David Gamm’s lab, and Ben Steyer, an MD-PhD student …