Eat a balanced diet and maintain a healthy weight.
Finding a cure for blindness.
While certain treatments help some people better perceive colors it s important to find ways of adapting to color blindness.
Gensight has shown that its treatment can reverse the devastating scourge of blindness due to lhon.
Blindness is strictly defined as the state of being totally sightless in both eyes.
For blind people however the future of medicine is one step closer to reality.
The next one that will hit clinics is a crispr treatment for a form of blindness called leber congenital amaurosis lca.
Vision impairment can range from mild to sev.
It s a terrible disease she said.
Even as crispr reaches milestones like this scientists continue to find new uses for it to treat genetic conditions.
It s not surprising that the first gene therapy that.
Several clinical trials also show promise for treating various forms of retinal degeneration using stem cells.
In december the fda approved the first gene therapy for an inherited disease a mutation in the gene rpe65 that causes a rare form of blindness.
Kiran musunuru another gene editing expert at the university of pennsylvania said the treatment seems likely to work based on tests in human tissue mice and monkeys.
Having been approved by the fda in december the treatment will be the first of its kind to be trialed in.
Right now they have nothing dr.
The national eye institute nei suggest a number of simple steps that can be taken to ensure your eyes are as healthy as they can be.
The test s effectiveness is measured by how many letters patients can read on an eye chart.
Wearing a colored filter over eyeglasses or a colored contact lens may enhance your perception of contrast between the confused colors.
Smoking has been associated with increased risks of developing cataracts optic nerve damage and.
A completely blind individual is unable to see at all.
Color blindness is a type of color vision deficiency that makes it.