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Swiss gene therapy for blindness makes further encouraging progress

A Swiss gene therapy for inherited blindness has reported encouraging results in an early-stage clinical trial. The treatment targets a genetic form of retinal degeneration that causes progressive vision loss, delivering a working copy of the faulty gene directly into the eye. Researchers say participants have shown measurable improvement in light sensitivity, and the team is now planning a larger trial to confirm the effect. The approach could eventually offer an alternative to the small number of gene therapies already approved for rare eye diseases.

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