Harvard couple wins $3M 'Oscar of Science' for first gene therapy to reverse childhood blindness A married couple of scientists who met as students at Harvard has won the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for creating the world's first gene therapy to restore sight in patients with a rare form of inherited blindness.
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A married couple of scientists who met as students at Harvard has won the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for creating the world's first gene therapy to restore sight in patients with a rare form of inherited blindness.
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