Yes, it is the low hanging fruit. The risk is also mitigated because if the gene manipulation causes cancer, it should be relatively restricted to the eye, whi

Yes, it is the low hanging fruit. The risk is also mitigated because if the gene manipulation causes cancer, it should be relatively restricted to the eye, which can be removed in the worst case. For a long time, gene therapy was shied away from because of an early case of oncogenesis with a lentiviral vector: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cba7/d43412c1709861aea218e4cba2240921668e.pdf?_ga=2.152739449.1717129560.1603239977-716216739.1603239977 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cba7/d43412c1709861aea218e4...