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Technique to regenerate optic nerve offers hope for future glaucoma treatment

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Scientists have used gene therapy to regenerate damaged nerve fibres in the eye, in a discovery that could aid the development of new treatments for glaucoma, one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide.  Axons – nerve fibres – in the adult central nervous system (CNS) do not normally regenerate after injury...