The Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel

Breakthrough Gene Editing Technique Offers Hope for Stargardt Disease Patients

8 January 2025 — Basel, Switzerland — Researchers have developed a highly efficient gene editing therapy that could potentially treat Stargardt disease, the most common form of inherited macular degeneration. This groundbreaking study, published in Nature Medicine on 8 January 2025, demonstrates the therapeutic use of a precision gene editing technology called base editing. Stargardt…
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