Drug approved as sickle cell disease treatment may help stabilize vision in rare genetic disease

Published Date: 19 Jun 2024

Roughly 50 families scattered across the world share ultra-rare variants in a particular gene. Silent for years, the inherited mutations make themselves known when patients reach the fourth decade of life. Changes in vision ...

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