Night blindness: Finding hope in the dark
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
A gene that could be responsible for some cases of human night blindness has been discovered by researchers. Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA) is a group of hereditary retinal diseases that result in severe loss of vision in early childhood and is estimated to affect around 1 in 80,000 of the population.