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There are currently no clinical treatments for bestrophinopathies. However, researchers are currently developing new approaches, such as gene therapy and genome editing to treat these inherited diseases.
This is a method that allows researchers to make specific changes to the DNA of living cells, modifying, removing or adding to the DNA sequence to correct the defect. Find out how we do this and how it works.