Disease Focus: Retinitis Pigmentosa

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Retinal progenitor cells for treatment of retinitis pigmentosa

The targeted disease is retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a severe form of blindness that often runs in families, but other times arises spontaneously from genetic errors. This disease is not overly common, yet represents an attainable near term target for stem cell therapy for a number of reasons: 1) RP destroys the light detecting cells of […]