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Doctors in London cure blindness in children with rare condition

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Four children were born with leber congenital amaurosis ( LCA ), a severe form of retinal dystrophy.

Condition causes vision loss due to a defect in the AIPL1 gene.

Doctors injected healthy copies of the gene into their eyes with keyhole surgery.

Four children aged between one and two from the US , Turkey and Tunisia were selected by specialists from Moorfields and UCL in 2020 .

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