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Researchers at the University of Cape Town trying to understand the mutation in the gene that causes night blindness, loss of peripheral vision and eventual blindness. Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Stem cells may hold the key to fixing a mutated gene that causes blindness

Stacey Moses, University of Cape Town and Raj Ramesar, University of Cape Town

Stem cell research underway in South Africa is the first step to understanding how mutations cause a retinal disease and whether repairing the defect in the cell may reverse the disease process.

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