The study of Gene Therapy allowing blind children to see was conducted in the University of Philadelphia School of Medicine. There is a story about a nine year old boy who would have to sit in the back of his school classroom with teacher aids showing his electronic large print screens. But now, he sits in the front of his classroom and needs no teacher aids to help him see anymore. This is because this child went through gene therapy to cure his problem. This same therapy was also used to help 5 other children along with 7 adults to help them to be able to see. Although they do not have the most perfect vision, they are not longer considered to be legally blind. I think this is a good therapy for people to gain eyesight. It's pretty interesting that researches can give someone sight just by gene therapy.
http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2009/10/25/1_shot_of_gene_therapy_and_children_with_congenital_blindness_can_now_see.html
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I found this article fascinating. I think it is amazing that researchers found gene therapy to help legally blind people regain their eye site, I am not legally blind but I have very bad eye site and I found laser surgery interesting, but this tops it.
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