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Dealing a death blow to retinal degeneration the result of a rare inherited sight disorder, gene therapy trials counteracting the condition improved vision in all patients tested, including an 8-year old boy who recovered near normal sensitivity light Dr. Jean Bennett from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and colleagues reporting at the American Academy of Ophthalmology said, while all children with Leber’s congenital amaurosis treated in the study regained sufficient vision to wal

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Gene Therapy Death Knell For Rare Blindness