Research has important implications for potential treatments of congenital cataracts: vision-research.eu

Deprivation of vision during critical periods of childhood development has long been thought to result in irreversible vision loss.

Now, researchers from the Schepens Eye Research Institute/Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have challenged that theory by studying a unique population of pediatric patients who were blind during these critical periods before removal of bilateral cataracts.

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Research has important implications for potential treatments of congenital cataracts

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