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Is a 'Cure' for Blindness Worth $1 Million?

Some blind people are questioning how the first gene therapy to treat inherited blindness has been valued.
Source: Bill West / AP

Among blind people, says Kim Charlson, asking if you’d prefer to see always starts a lively debate: “Every opinion is going to be different.” Charlson, who lost her sight at age 11 and now is president of the American Council of the Blind, says she would hold out for full color vision. Others might settle for seeing in blurry black and white. And yet other blind people might have no desire to see at all.

For a small number of blind people, this hypothetical question recently become a

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