Health
Researchers combine gene therapy and event cameras to partially restore a blind man’s sight – Yahoo Lifestyle Australia
A formerly blind patient has unexpectedly had a portion of his visual perception restored thanks to a cutting-edge hybrid biological-technological therapy…
Imagine, if you will, slowly going blind over the course of forty years waking every morning with just a tiny bit more of your peripheral vision grayed out, your world disappearing behind a shrinking keyhole of vision, eventually fading to the impenetrable depths of full blindness as the defective photoreceptive cells in your eyes fail. Such was the presumed fate of a 58-year-old who had suffered Retinitis Pigmentosa for the past four decades. He elected to participate in a recent study performed…
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