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Blind mice see again

submitted by jsliwa on June 27, 2010
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Researchers have restored sight to blind laboratory mice. Using a virus already approved for human gene therapy, the researchers inserted a gene from a light-sensitive bacterium, Natronomonas pharaonis, into cone-cell DNA.
 
 

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