Seeing the light might now get easier for people with a rare, genetic form of blindness. Some blind mice also offer hope that people who have lost all the light processing cells in their eyes might not have to stay in the dark forever.
EYE TROUBLE At left is the retina of a patient with the inherited disease Leber’s congenital amaurosis, pallid compared to a normal retina (right).
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