Items tagged with Blindness

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Not Blind to Emotion

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 - 13:55:27 - Ehud Rattner

Two patients, partially blind because of damage to one side of their brain, were able to sense, and respond to, emotions expressed by people in...

Tooth Helps Restore Desperate Woman's Sight

Thursday, September 17th, 2009 - 16:03:48 - Anuradha Menon

Nine years of blindness almost drove Sharron "Kay" Thornton to suicide. In the end, it was one of her teeth and a procedure surgeons said was never...

Restoring Sight with Gene Therapy

Friday, May 29th, 2009 - 14:35:53 - Anuradha Menon

Several years ago, when Ed Boyden developed a novel technology to make nerve cells sensitive to light, he knew that it would rapidly catch on in the...

Training the Brain to See Again After Stroke

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 - 14:23:58 - Anuradha Menon

By doing a set of vigorous visual exercises on a computer every day for several months, patients who had gone partially blind as a result of...

Seeing with Your Skin
Friday, October 3rd, 2008 - Anni Shaer Levitt
Does seeing through skin cells sound like crazy science fiction to you? Think again. Professor Leonid Yaroslavsky, a...

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Gene Therapy For Blindness Improves Vision

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 - 10:17:02 - Ehud Rattner

All three people who received gene therapy at the University of Florida to treat a rare, incurable form of blindness have regained some of their...

Dachshund's Gene Might Cure Blindess

Sunday, August 10th, 2008 - 09:50:57 - Ehud Rattner

Cone-rod dystrophies (CRDs) are a group of eye diseases caused by progressive loss of the photoreceptor cells in the retina. Researchers have...

Gene Therapy Improves Vision

Monday, April 28th, 2008 - 12:15:46 - Ehud Rattner

In a clinical trial at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, researchers from The University of Pennsylvania have used gene therapy to safely...

Helping the Blind See Electronic Images
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 - Roni Barr
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been developing (and licensing) two novel technologies...