Test could save the sight of millions world-wide

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Updated December 20 2018 - 12:34pm, first published December 14 2018 - 12:30am
SAVING SIGHT: Dr Riccardo Natoli from the John Curtin School of Medical Research and ANU Medical School is developing a blood test to diagnosis dry age-related macular degeneration much earlier. Photo: Lannon Harley ANU
SAVING SIGHT: Dr Riccardo Natoli from the John Curtin School of Medical Research and ANU Medical School is developing a blood test to diagnosis dry age-related macular degeneration much earlier. Photo: Lannon Harley ANU

JAN James spent her career helping the blind – recently she was told she too was losing her sight.

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Eileen Wood

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