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...gene therapy combats a disease called proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR), which strikes around ten percent of people who undergo surgery for a detached retina, said Andrius Kazlauskas, an associate professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School...
...retina is the back part of the eye attached to the brain which enables vision...
...trauma, the retina can become detached and require surgery...
...patients who develop PVR, a membrane grows on top of the retina following surgery and contracts, Kazlauskas said...
This membrane pulls the reattached retina off the back of the eye, reversing the effects of the surgery...