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Use blind cured stem cell contact lenses
Australian researchers have found a simple yet extremely creative method to treat blind people due to corneal damage.
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Blindness with stem cell 'contact lenses'
Scientists use contact lenses with stem cells to maintain vision for the blind. The first surgery significantly improved vision for patients.
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Girls are blind for 3 days per week
An Australian girl has one of the most bizarre phenomena in the world: her eyes are closed every 3 days, then opened again in 3 days.
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Seek blindness treatment for algae
Cloning green algae to produce light-sensitive proteins can provide effective measures to treat certain blindness diseases.
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New method to cure blindness
The 18-year-old Stephen Howarth, from Bolton, England, was blind almost completely, for the first time going home from the train station at night. That is the result of…
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Detects the second light sensing system in the human eye
New research for blind people provides a proof for the human eye hypothesis that there are two separate light-sensing systems: a conventional visual signal reception hel…
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Why do blind people usually have good hearing?
Recent research by Alexander Stevens, an expert at Oregon Health and Science University, explains the reason for early blindness that hearing develops more than other no…
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Children are prone to blindness due to premature birth
Premature babies at 32 weeks and weighing less than 1.8 kg, often blind in both eyes, due to small blood vessel damage in the eye. If treated early, 80% of children also…
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Genetic treatments make the brain work despite being born blind
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated a gene therapy method commonly used to restore retina to the eyes in the blind, also restores the functio…
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Blind people have extraordinary memories
Blind people are very good at remembering things in the right order. When the vision is lost, the world is perceived in certain sequences, bio-neurologist Ehud Zohary at…
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New virtual map for visually impaired people
Scientists in Greece have developed a new system capable of converting video into virtual touchable maps for the blind. These three-dimensional maps use force fields to…
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Asia is about to have a anti-blind drug factory
Genentech (US) has announced on March 28 that it plans to invest US $ 140 million to build a Lucentis anti-blind drug factory. This will be the first plant in Asia to pr…
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Congenital eye disease in young children: May be blind if not detected early
In 2006, Ho Chi Minh City Hospital (BV) examined and operated for more than 122,000 children with eye diseases. In which there are dangerous diseases that can cause blin…
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Biological eyes bring light to the blind
Dr. Kristina Narfstrom, an eye specialist at Missouri-Columbia University (USA), placed silicon chips in the eyes of cats that were almost blinded by a form of macular d…
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Emotional expressions on the face are hereditary
According to Israeli biologists, most facial expressions like anger, are hereditary. Nerves and facial muscles can be controlled by genes passed from one generation to a…