Restore Vision in Optic Nerve Injury

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• Using gene therapy to improve visual functionality in those effected by optic nerve damage
• Scientists used gene therapy to regenerate nerves
• Also added channel-blocking drug, for nerves to conduct eye to brain impulses
• This could be reasonably used by clinics without meddling with tumor suppressor genes
• The study, published in the Journal Cell