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Two teams of scientists in the United States and Britain used gene therapy to dramatically improve vision in four patients with an inherited eye disease that causes blindness in children. This artist's rendering shows the subretinal surgery involved, in which a dose of normal gene is injected into the back of the eye to replace the defective gene in the cells. |
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