Seeing hope: FDA panel considers gene therapy for blindness

In this Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, photo, sunlight reflected off a window lights up Christian Guardino’s face, as he stands for a portrait outside his home in Patchogue, N.Y. Christian was diagnosed with hereditary blindness and received gene therapy as part of a study. On Thursday, Oct. 12, U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers will consider whether to recommend approval of the gene therapy. Before treatment, “It was dark, life without light,” Christian said. “I found a way to work through it, to cope with it, and that was music.” (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)