by University of Wisconsin-Madison Best vitelliform macular degeneration, or Best disease, is an inherited eye condition that typically leads to blindness over the course of a few decades. The disease can be caused by more than two hundred mutations in the BEST1 gene. The researchers were able to correct the disease in stem cells from...
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Eye damage linked to popular over-the-counter vitamin that lowers cholesterol can be reversed
THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL / MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE In a first-of-its-kind clinical report, retina specialists at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE) have shown that severe vision loss from a self-prescribed high dose of over-the-counter niacin is linked to injury of a specific cell type in a patient’s...