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Therapy could improve and prolong sight in those suffering vision loss

The treatment—involving either a drug or gene therapy—works by reducing the noise generated by nerve cells in the eye, which can interfere with vision much the way tinnitus interferes with hearing.

UC Berkeley neurobiologists have already shown that this approach improves vision in mice with a genetic condition, retinitis pigmentosa, that slowly leaves them blind.

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