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Toddlers who were born with the most severe form of childhood blindness can now see after groundbreaking gene therapy treatment at an NHS hospital. Economics
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Four children can now see shapes, find toys, recognise their parents’ faces and some can read and writeDoctors in London have become the first in the world to cure blindness in children born with a rare genetic condition using a pioneering gene therapy.The children had leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a severe form of retinal dystrophy that causes vision loss due to a defect in the AIPL1 gene. Those affected are legally certified as blind from birth. Continue reading... Society
British scientists have become the first in the world to use a pioneering gene therapy to preserve sight in toddlers with the most severe form of childhood blindness. Politics
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