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Glaucoma drug shows promise against neurodegenerative diseases, animal studies suggest

by University of Cambridge Credit: Google DeepMind from Pexels A drug commonly used to treat glaucoma has been shown in zebrafish and mice to protect against the build-up in the brain of the protein tau, which causes various forms of dementia and is implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers in the UK Dementia Research Institute at the...

New gene therapy lowers eye pressure to treat glaucoma
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New gene therapy lowers eye pressure to treat glaucoma

By Paul McClure April 20, 2023 Researchers have used gene therapy to develop a treatment for the damaging high intraocular pressure that is common in glaucoma Depositphotos The high eye pressure seen in glaucoma slowly leads to blindness. For some, the first-line treatment, eye drops, doesn’t work. Researchers have used gene therapy to develop a promising new...