With LCA Gene Therapy, a Rare Glimpse of the Adult Brain Adapting to New Experience

When people lose the ability to see, how do the visual parts of the brain change in response? And if they regain their sight, are the changes reversed? Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania took a rare opportunity to address these questions by looking at how the brains of people with a genetic, blinding eye disease—Leber’s congenital amaurosis (LCA)—responded to an experimental gene therapy.
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