EyeconX Ideas! - Hope Of Treatment For Debilitating Eye Disease Using New Pig Model http://ideas.eyeconx.net/story.php?title=hope-of-treatment-for-debilitating-eye-disease-using-new-pig-model A newly developed, genetically modified pig may hold the keys to the development of improved treatments and possibly even a cure for retinitis pigmentosa (RP), the most common inherited retinal disease in the United States. The pig model was developed by researchers in the University of Louisville Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and at the National Swine Resource and Research Center ... Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:22:45 EDT en