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First gene therapy for rare blindness gets US FDA nod

In a first, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a novel gene therapy to treat children and adult patients with an inherited form of vision loss that may result in blindness.
Dec 20, 2017
By IANS
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NASA aims to send probe to nearby exoplanet by 2069

The details of the mission concept was presented by Anthony Freeman of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the 2017 American Geophysical Union conference in New Orleans.
Dec 20, 2017
By Samhati Bhattacharjya