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Is sight possible for kids once thought permanently blind?

By Keith O'Brien
Globe Correspondent / February 19, 2007

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Pawan Sinha was visiting a clinic in India four years ago when he met a boy blinded since birth by cataracts. Sinha, an associate professor of visual neuroscience at MIT, was surprised to see the child, who was about 7, suffering from such a treatable problem. He soon came to learn the child wasn't rare -- not in the least. (Full article: 519 words)

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