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Scientists Have Reversed Age-Related Blindness by Deliberately Infecting Eyes With a Virus

May 22, 2017/

Symptoms almost completely disappeared.

A small and preliminary clinical trial has found that injecting a common cold-like virus into the eyes of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) patients – one of the leading causes of blindness in the US – can halt and even reverse the progression of the disease.

Full Story: http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-stopped-age-related-blindness-by-deliberately-infecting-eyes-with-a-virus

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