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NNadir

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2. This is an interesting paper. Some rare kinds of blindness have successfully been treated...

Reply to MLAA (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 16, 2020, 11:47 PM

Dec 2020

...with gene therapy.

This work refers to a specific type of eye malfunction, that associated with glaucoma, but the implications of this work seem to me to be much broader.

It could become a real treatment, I would imagine an expensive treatment, but a real one.

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