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Scientists suspect that Galileo Galilei suffered from an eye disease that led to blindness in his last two years of life. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel of UTMB’s Medical Discovery News report that scientists are seeking permission to exhume the great astronomer for DNA testing to identify the disease that blinded him.

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