Parents have been firing carrots into their kids’ mouths for 70-plus years on the concept that “they give you better vision!” Truth is, while carrots are super-healthy, they won’t do a thing to bring you back to 20/20. It’s a myth, invented in WWII England to confuse the Nazis.
A team of surgeons in Oxford have used a pioneering new form of gene therapy to stop six of their patients going blind–and it’s hoped the technique could be used to treat blindness more generally.