Neuroscientist Sue Semple-Rowland (IMAGE)

University of Florida

Neuroscientist Sue Semple-Rowland

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Neuroscientist Sue Semple-Rowland of the University of Florida's McKnight Brain Institute poses with a type of Rhode Island Red chicken born blind. Rowland has developed a gene therapy that enables these animals to hatch with their sight intact, which proves in principle that a similar treatment can be developed for an incurable form of blindness in children.

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