Soft Magazine - Kindle Edition - September 2019 – Misty Lovelace

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Misty’s also learned about human nature along the way and the desire to fit in. Real stars, for the first time Research into gene editing is advancing as well. In September, Editas Medicine shared preliminary results from the first trial testing a CRISPR gene editing treatment that does its work inside the body. Treatment appeared safe, although the efficacy results were mixed, with several patients experiencing little improvement in vision. The treatment uses CRISPR editing to restore the function of eye cells in people with another form of LCA known as type 10. On Oct. 12, 2017, a panel of scientists and FDA advisers unanimously endorsed the gene therapy, with Misty one of several individuals who shared their stories. The FDA followed with an approval on Dec. 18, a gene therapy milestone. We will update the name of Misty Lovelace’s Brother soon. If anyone knows about Her brother’s information, please let us know in the comments. We will update this article soon. Children’s:In December 2017, the Food and Drug Administration approved LUXTURNA™, developed by Spark Therapeutics , as a breakthrough genetic treatment in which a human-engineered virus containing copies of a normal gene is injected under the retina. She got to see the moment of me first-ever seeing the stars,” Misty recalled. “It was funny, too, me and my sisters, we were all swimming in our Walmart swimming pool, being careful of the chlorine. I looked up at the sky and just started screaming, and I had no idea what they were and why they were there and why did they blink. (My mom’s) freaking out and I’m freaking out.” It's still almost like a new kid every day, like a new baby that sees something new," his mother said. A sky-high price tag

I would recommend it to anyone visually impaired. I get to wake up early, do my schooling and I ride my horse the rest of the day.” And as Luxturna keeps working, other drugmakers hope to replicate its success. The eye, in particular, is the focus of many gene therapy developers, as it's easy to access and targeting it doesn't carry as many safety risks as other organs. Novartis, which sells Luxturna in Europe, AbbVie, Biogen and Johnson & Johnson are all exploring gene therapies for the eye. I like it because the only way you can learn and expand your knowledge of horses is to find the troublemakers. That’s what my horse is, definitely the troublemaker.” Since Luxturna's clearance, Novartis won FDA approval in May 2019 for a spinal muscular atrophy treatment known as Zolgensma, making it the second gene therapy for an inherited disease available in the U.S. A handful of other gene therapies are in late-stage testing and, behind them, are an expanding pipeline of experimental medicines for a constellation of genetic conditions. In 2020 alone, the FDA received more than 230 applications from cell and gene therapy developers to begin clinical trials, the head of the agency's biologic drugs division said earlier this year. "It's like he's a new kid every day"Misty said she would have continued her interest in horses even if she didn’t have the LUXTURNA treatment. To understand Misty’s level of vision then, she says to imagine wearing very dark sunglasses and looking through a PVC pipe. With no peripheral vision, she had to move her head, rather than just her eyes, to see up and down. Misty, recalling a doctor’s pronouncement six years ago, said: “One day, I’m going to wake up and I’m going to be completely blind and it’s going to happen before I’m 18. She gets along with horses well because her visual impairment gave rise to what she calls a sixth sense. She said she often can feel people’s presence before it is obvious, and horses possess similar instincts. Their vision isn't perfect, however. Some recipients, Misty included, are still considered legally blind and unable to drive. How long the benefit of gene therapy treatment will last is still unclear, though a recent study co-authored by Maguire and Bennett indicated "improvements were maintained up to 3 to 4 years" after Luxturna.

And now, at 18, the age when a doctor predicted Misty would be blind, she is ever so grateful for her sight. A passion for horses They sat me down and said the surgery could make it the same, make it better or make it worse. Facing a choice between waking up blind before 18 or the surgery’s going to do it, you gotta take a risk.” Bennett and her husband, Albert Maguire, met at Harvard Medical School in the early 1980s. The two began researching gene therapy together, attempting to treat blindness in mice. Soon they were testing their approach on Briard dogs with the same defective RPE65 gene that causes LCA in humans. They didn’t tell me much of anything,” she said. “They just label you and you just go on. It’s trial and error. You never know what the right problem is until you find it.” Diagnosis: LCA-RPE65 Misty underwent the revolutionary treatment in 2013 when she was 13, and she experienced greatly improved vision in 24 hours.

It’s unknown how long Luxturna’s benefits will last, but Maguire says patients treated up to 11 years ago still have stable vision in the second eye, which received a higher dose than the first. Many of them can now walk without a cane and tell colors apart. Those on the younger end of the 4- to 44-year-old age range report the most benefits, since they’d lost fewer photoreceptor cells: Kids who couldn’t play outdoors after dark, or ride a bike without help, are now able to do those things. Some of the teenagers are eligible for driver’s licenses. They are able to play varsity soccer and join the cheerleading squad. Their social lives blossomed once they could read friends’ faces. We will update the name of Misty Lovelace’s boyfriend. If anyone knows about Her boyfriend’s information, please let us know in the comments. We will update this article soon. Misty Lovelace Family & Relationship Name

The two met and married at Harvard Medical School—Maguire was becoming an eye surgeon, and Bennett, who also had a PhD in developmental biology, was about to enter the new field of gene therapy. Working together, the pair showed they could improve the vision of mice born with genetic blindness. In 2000, they tested this on Briard dogs who had been born with defective copies of RPE65, the gene affected by LCA.As a preteen living with her grandparents, Misty consented to genetic therapy surgery as part of clinical trials for the recently approved drug called LUXTURNA™. It’s amazing; I never thought that detail could be detail,” she said. “I can see hairlines, I can see little things that are so, just so nice. I see colors and bright neon colors.” They drew them on a piece of paper. Kids asked if I could see them and I said, ‘Yeah,’ even though I didn’t really see. Kids are mean, they always have been. As soon as I went to middle school, I started to be put down. I was called Helen Keller, kids were absolutely awful.”