On a bright September Sunday in 2008, 8-year-old Corey Haas walked up
the pathway to the Philadelphia zoo holding his parents' hands, looked
up, and screamed. It was the first time he'd seen the sun.
Four
days earlier, Corey had undergone gene therapy for hereditary blindness
at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. An eye surgeon had gently placed
billions of viruses bearing healing genes just beneath the rods and
cones of Corey's left eye. Now, at the zoo, seeing the sun hurt.
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