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Gene Therapy Helps Blind Man Regain Some Sight – WebMD
For the first time, doctors used a form of gene therapy to restore partial vision in a person who has been blind for 40 years.
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“The brain has to learn a new language coming from the retina, because what these ganglion cells are telling the brain are not the normal activity of the ganglion cells,” said senior researcher Dr. Botond Roska, founding director of the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel in Switzerland.
Electroencephalogram (EEG) readings, which measure electrical activity in the brain, showed that the man’s brain was indeed responding to visual input from the eye.
“Therefore, the…
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