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Researchers use CRISPR to repair genetic defect that causes blindness
- adenadel 11y agoThis is really cool, but scientists have been using other vectors to cure inherited retinal diseases for several years.[0] Eric Pierce at the Ocular Genomics Institute gave a talk on his lab's work that I was able to attend. They have been doing really cool work without CRISPR, although it wouldn't surprise me if they were looking into using it now. 0. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=19953081 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=19953081