Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) is a form of childhood blindness is an inherited disease of the eye that occurs at birth or in the first couple of months of the infant’s life and it is quite rare, affecting 1 in 80,000 of the population. In 2008 scientists had a breakthrough in treating the illness with gene therapy and now, the second breakthrough and probably the biggest since LCA was … [Read more...]
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