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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Jane Kirby

Six-year-old girl has sight restored thanks to life-changing eye gene therapy

Saffie Sandford has had her sight restored thanks to a one-off gene therapy on the NHS (Family handout/Great Ormond Street/PA) -

A six-year-old girl has had her sight restored thanks to a life-changing eye gene therapy on the NHS.

Saffie Sandford, from Stevenage in Hertfordshire, has the rare inherited condition Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis (LCA) which prevents cells in the eye from making a specific protein needed for normal vision.

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