Four children can now see shapes, find toys, recognise their parents’ faces and some can read and write

Doctors in London have become the first in the world to cure blindness in children born with a rare genetic condition using a pioneering gene therapy.

The children had leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a severe form of retinal dystrophy that causes vision loss due to a defect in the AIPL1 gene. Those affected are legally certified as blind from birth.