A boy recovers his sight with gene therapy eye drops. The 13-year-old suffers from a rare disease that has deteriorated corneas.
The therapy is called beremagene geperpavec (B-VEC; Vyjuvek) The boy was legally blind and with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa at age 7. The degree of improvement was remarkable, given the lack of changes in the contralateral eye, which underwent similar treatment but without the ophthalmic application of B-V EC.