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...
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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...