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In a first, experimental gene therapy aims to treat the most common cause of blindness

Feb 19, 2019

Doctors have used gene therapy to treat the most common underlying cause of blindness, in a world first, according to Gizmodo. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which causes more sight impairment globa...

National Health Service plans to pay for 10 patients to receive “bionic eye” implant

West Side Story

Dec 27, 2016

Health, Policy, Science

England’s National Health Service is planning to pay for 10 patients to receive a “bionic eye” implant, able to restore some sight to people who have been blind for years. Funding of these implants by the NHS c...

Blindness can now be cured with Embryonic Stem Cell Treatment

Siddhant Ghatge

Oct 15, 2014

Health

Stem Cells derived from a human embryo, have been proved to have caused patients none of the problems scientists feared, such as forming tumours, and reversed partial blindness in about half the eyes receiving ...

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