Potential cure discovered for degenerative vision diseases leading to terminal blindness

Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 22:14 in Health & Medicine

Neurobiologists have discovered a potential cure for degenerative vision diseases leading to terminal blindness. Scientists may have discovered a cure to degenerative vision diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa. By manipulating proteins that cause blindness in mice the scientists have successfully restored vision in the light-sensing cells of the retina.

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