Hot on the heels of my post about the first genetic therapy being approved in the US, we have another one moving through the approval process. Gene therapies are on a path to be a normal (personalised) component of health care.
In this case, federal health advisors have endorsed a therapy that cures a particular form of inherited blindness.
“Doctors deliver the therapy with an injection in each eye that inserts a replacement gene into the retina via a modified virus.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-advisers-review-gene-therapy-to-treat-form-of-blindness/