Lazy eye, a type of amblyopia, is easy to reverse in children but almost impossible to treat in adults. Elizabeth Quinlan, a professor of biology at the University of Maryland, is building on more than a decade of research in rodents to see if visual deprivation-spending extended periods of time in total darkness-can help restore normal vision in adults with lazy eye.
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