Gene Therapy

One of the things that was brought up at the Albinism group today was gene therapy. I had also read an article on it a few days ago.
From http://news.yahoo.com:

"The two teams of scientists, working separately, each tested gene replacement therapy in three patients with a form of a rare hereditary eye disease called Leber's congenital amaurosis. There's no treatment for the disease, which appears early in infancy and causes severe vision loss, especially at night."

Vision was improved with the gene therapy and there may eventually be therapies for other genetic eye conditions. Next week's group is going to be with a geneticist, so maybe there will be more insight on this.