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Sehkraft aus der Wüste

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Die gezielte Expression einer mikrobiellen licht-sensitiven Chloridpumpe in verbliebenen Zellen führt zur funktionellen Reaktivierung der vormals blinden Netzhäuten in der degenerativen Erkrankung Retinitis Pigmentosa und verspricht somit Heilung.

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The targeted expression of a microbial light-sensitive chloride pump to remaining cells in degenerative retinas led to a functional reactivation of this former blind retinas. This opens a new treatment for the disease retinitis pigmentosa.

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  1. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Volker Busskamp

  2. Harvard Medical School Genetics Department, NRB-238 (Church lab), 77 Ave. Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Volker Busskamp

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Volker Busskamp Jahrgang 1980. 2001–2005 Studium der Biotechnologie an der TU Braunschweig, Diplomarbeit am Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) in Basel, Schweiz. 2006 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Laboratory of Virology and Genetics (LVG) der Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne, Schweiz. 2007 Diplom in Biologie an der Universität Genf, Schweiz. 2007–2010 Promotion am Friedrich Miescher Institute bei Dr. Botond Roska. Seit 2011 Postdoc an der Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

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Busskamp, V. Sehkraft aus der Wüste. Biospektrum 17, 762–764 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12268-011-0125-0

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