Durchbruch in eine neue Ära : Gentherapie lässt Blinden wieder sehen n-tv.de - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from n-tv.de Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A formerly blind patient has unexpectedly had a portion of his visual perception restored thanks to a cutting-edge hybrid biological-technological therapy known as optogenetics..
Blind Frenchman s sight partially restored by pioneering gene therapy connexionfrance.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from connexionfrance.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It s just amazing : How this gene therapy helped a blind man start to see
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A blind man regained partial sight after undergoing a gene therapy known as optogenetics and using a pair of specialized goggles, according to a breakthrough case study published in
Nature Medicine.
According to the
New York Times, the human eye generates images when light hits the retina, where photoreceptor cells convert the light into electrical signals they send to neighboring ganglion cells. Those ganglion cells then use the optic nerve to send those signals to the brain, which converts the information into images.
However, roughly two million people worldwide suffer from a collection of progressive, hereditary diseases together called retinitis pigmentosa in which different gene mutations cause photoceptor cells to die off, eventually causing blindness.