Last week’s Nobel for optogenetics is already giving blind people some sight back. Retinitis pigmentosa kills the eye’s light-detecting cells but leaves the nerve cells behind them intact. Researchers in Pittsburgh and Basel injected those nerve cells with a gene for a light-sensitive protein, then fitted ten patients with goggles that turn whatever the camera sees into flashes of amber light the new protein can respond to. ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/partial-vision-restored-in-some-blind-patients-with-new-experimental-treatment
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