“In a world first, a man suffering from vision loss in Italy has regained his sight thanks to an experimental gene therapy.

The 38-year-old has Usher syndrome type 1b, a rare genetic disorder that causes profound deafness from birth and a progressive loss of vision, leading to blindness.

The surgery took place in July 2024 at the ophthalmology clinic of the University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’ in southern Italy. At the time, the patient had a visual capacity of less than a tenth, seeing the world as if he was looking at it through a keyhole.”

From Euronews.