{"id":220372,"date":"2025-02-21T12:05:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T12:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/doctors-in-london-cure-blindness-in-children-with-rare-condition\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T12:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T12:05:34","slug":"doctors-in-london-cure-blindness-in-children-with-rare-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/doctors-in-london-cure-blindness-in-children-with-rare-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors in London cure blindness in children with rare condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/H0tq6ABWW-Q\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Doctors in London cure blindness in children with rare condition\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H0tq6ABWW-Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Doctors in London have become the first in the world to cure blindness in children born with a rare genetic condition using a pioneering gene therapy. The children had leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a severe form of retinal dystrophy that causes vision loss due to a defect in the AIPL1 gene. Those affected are legally certified as blind from birth. But after doctors injected healthy copies of the gene into their eyes with keyhole surgery that took just 60 minutes, four children can now see shapes, find toys, recognise their parents\u2019 faces, and in some cases, even read and write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors in London have become the first in the world to cure blindness in children born with a rare genetic condition using a pioneering gene therapy. The children had leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a severe form of retinal dystrophy that causes vision loss due to a defect in the AIPL1 gene. 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