The promise of CRISPR for curing congenital eye disorders What is city talk?
Keziya is a health research professional specialising in biotechnology.
Genome editing is emerging as a powerful tool with the potential to eliminate a range of genetic disorders. Now the CRISPR-cas9 gene-editing tool, which is adapted from the bacterial anti-viral defense system, has broken new scientific ground by being directly administered into the body of live patients for the first time, in an attempt to cure them of blindness.
Blindness remains one of the most pervasive global health problems in the world and has an incalculable economic impact. According to Tej Kohli of the Tej Kohli Foundation, up to 80% of blindness in low-and-middle income countries could be cured or avoided, compared to just 10% in developed countries. Closing this treatment gap requires new technological solutions.
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Nepal’s God of Sight eye doctor to expand work beyond border
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYAApril 8, 2021 GMT
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LUMBINI, Nepal (AP) Just next to the Mayadevi temple where Buddha was born more than 2,600 years ago, hundreds of people lined up outside a makeshift hospital on a recent hazy day, hoping their fading eyesight could be restored.
A day later, these saffron-robed Buddhist monks, old farmers and housewives were able to see the world again because the nation’s renowned eye surgeon Dr. Sanduk Ruit was there with his innovative and inexpensive cataract surgery that has earned him many awards.
A Nepalese elderly patient waits for his eye patch to be removed at the Tilganga Eye Center in Kathmandu, Nepal. Photos: AP
Just next to the Mayadevi temple where Buddha was born more than 2,600 years ago, hundreds of people lined up outside a makeshift hospital on a recent hazy day, hoping their fading eyesight could be restored.
A day later, these saffron-robed Buddhist monks, old farmers and housewives were able to see the world again because the nation’s renowned eye surgeon Dr Sanduk Ruit was there with his innovative and inexpensive cataract surgery that has earned him many awards.
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