The $850K, Philly-Developed Blindness Treatment That Could Be the Gateway to Curing Big Disease

Laura asked me to post the following link to an interesting article on gene therapy forwarded to her by Jessica Bolton (Thanks Jess!). Gene Therapy will likely be the next FDA approved treatment for SMA and this gives a little insight into a recently approved treatment for genetic blindness out of Philadelphia and the positive outcome from the research they did. 

http://www.phillymag.com/business/2018/01/03/spark-therapeutics-gene-therapy-luxturna-philadelphia/?utm_campaign=EDIT:%20Biz%20Philly&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=59784901&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_lV7_tbeQJEBW2VR0n-rLBucCj9zQz4dzq1MVdtBIFV7zuFTRZI5iUKDGZDCdoMqP-3ihbYT1cZyX7p8amk6RK_0H90Q&_hsmi=59784901