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Jocelyn Kaiser

Jocelyn Kaiser is a staff writer for Science magazine.

Stories from Jocelyn Kaiser

“I didn’t sleep at all,” says Albert Maguire, recalling the night after he and Jean Bennett treated their first gene therapy patient. The operation was a success.

A New Treatment for Blindness Comes From Gene Therapy

A wife-and-husband research team cracks the code to allow certain patients to see again