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Penn researchers report that gene therapy awakens the brain despite blindness from birth
06-25-2007 · EurekAlert!Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated that gene therapy used to restore retinal activity to the blind also restores function to the brain's visual center, a critical component of seeing.
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