What happens when a bodybuilder loses his vision but refuses to give up? Meet Justin Holland, a competitive bodybuilder who went blind due to Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy. Instead of letting it ...

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Beyer is legally blind. Two years ago, he was diagnosed with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, also known as (LHON). A rare genetic disease that causes vision loss. “She’s like, no ...

Five years after the one-time injection, patients with Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON) due to the MT-ND4 gene variant demonstrated sustained bilateral improvement in visual acuity and ...

The study, "Single-Eye Gene Therapy for Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy," published in JAMA Ophthalmology, details the findings of RESTORE, a long-term follow-up of two earlier Phase III trials ...

Patients with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) due to the MT-ND4 gene variant treated with the gene therapy lenadogene nolparvovec in one eye showed a sustained improvement in best ...

More information: Rui Wang et al, MSC-mediated mitochondrial transfer restores mitochondrial DNA and function in neural progenitor cells of Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, Science China Life ...

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for the treatment of Leber hereditary optic neuropathy caused by ND4 mutation (ND4-LHON). Neurophth is conducting a phase I/II, single-arm, multi-center study aimed at evaluating the safety and ...