Treatment for horses may lead to therapy for type of blindness

A recent UF study, published in Frontiers in Immunology, looked at the potential of an eye drop they developed to treat the sight-robbing disease known as equine recurrent autoimmune uveitis. The way uveitis affects eyes — and the way the treatment works — is similar in horses and people, said UF/IFAS Microbiology and Cell Science Associate Professor Joseph Larkin, Ph.D.