An Eye for an Eye

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From Proto magazine comes a nice round-up of the latest advances in restoring vision, including artificial retinas (like hearing aids for your eyes), gene therapy, and stem-cell treatments that may be able to regrow damaged retina cells.

The piece has a great opening line: “How many electrodes can fit on the back of an eye?” (Answer: In about five years, hopefully 1,000.)


Posted by Meera Lee Sethi on February 07, 2010 at 1:42 PM in health
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