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Stanford University investigators have created a new type of retinal implant, which can partially restore vision in people who suffer from the effects of accidents or medical conditions. The implants contain photovoltaic cells, which means that they can be powered by light.
The designers of the medical device say t... |
14 May 2012
05:47 GMT |
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Funny how science works! After 10 years of research and 9,000 papers published on the root cause of an eye disease called choroidal neovascularization (CNV), a shipping accident is what ultimately led a scientist to uncover a novel mechanism that may be underlying the condition.
Indiana University Biocomplexity Ins... |
4 May 2012
10:07 GMT |
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City College of New York investigators, led by neuroscientists Tony Ro, are currently working on a new method of restoring sight to patients who went blind following accidents that damaged the visual cortex at the back of their brains.
In this population, the eyes and optical nerves are intact, and produce electric... |
2 April 2012
07:41 GMT |
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A group of researchers at the University of Leeds, in the United Kingdom, says that their latest study provides more insight into the genetic roots of inherited eye disorders affecting young children.
The study used next-generation DNA sequencing methods to get the job done. Some of the conditions that were inves... |
9 September 2011
05:33 GMT |
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More than 250 million people in the world today are blind from preventable causes, and an MIT expert and his team plan to put a serious dent in that massive number. The researchers developed a new instrument capable to scanning for cataract inexpensively. At this point, cataract investigations can only be made using ... |
1 July 2011
08:08 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that being too focused or concentrated can actually make people deaf to the world around them, in the strictest sense of the word.Inordinate concentration can take up so much of the brain's resources that people actually become deaf for limi... |
31 May 2011
09:38 GMT |
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Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are currently working on a new treatment for the human eye, which could potentially restore sight in patients whose blindness was caused by the degenerative condition called retinitis pigmentosa.
There are currently more than 1 million people who are b... |
21 April 2011
02:47 GMT |
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An international team of researchers announces promising results with a new electronic device, which they say can be implanted in patients suffering from retinal dystrophy, restoring at least partial sight. The results are very important, because they could potentially change the lives of over 15 million people, whic... |
3 November 2010
07:27 GMT |
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A team of investigators recently managed to find a gene that apparently plays an important role in underlying nearsightedness, or myopia. The finding could potentially benefit millions. Over the past few decades, statistics have shown that the incidence of myopia has increased considerably. Despite all this, very few... |
13 September 2010
10:12 GMT |
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A group of investigators has recently managed a breakthrough that is bound to bring hope to the millions of people suffering from a degenerative eye condition known as retinitis pigmentosa. The disease is characterized by dysfunctions in the retina's photoreceptor cells, which are shaped either as cones or rods.... |
12 June 2010
04:40 GMT |
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Receiving a corneal transplant is the only hope many people have of ever being able to see again. Official statistics show that, throughout the European Union, more than 40,000 individuals wait for this small piece of tissue every year. In Germany alone, the number is 7,000, and many of those people never get their t... |
19 May 2010
10:00 GMT |
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One of the most common side-effects of diabetes is blindness, that much all patients suffering from the condition know. Regardless, only a very small portion of people who have the condition get their eyes checked out. In the United States, the situation is disastrous, with about 11 million people of the 23 million s... |
13 May 2010
10:12 GMT |
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More than 50 years ago, a team of American scientists made a remarkable discovery. They were able to prove the existence of a peculiar species of fish that had two main traits to distinguish it from other similar creatures. First of all, it only lived underground, and second of all, it had no eyes. A single specimen ... |
12 May 2010
09:12 GMT |
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A group of experts from the North Carolina State University (NC State) has taken it upon itself to promote the research and development of a new type of computer screen. The innovation, which is nearly completed, is meant to help blind people make the most out of their online experience, and also to make it easier fo... |
29 March 2010
11:01 GMT |
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Fifty-one-year-old Peter Lane is one of the first people in the world to benefit from the obvious advantages of the new bionic eye technology. The therapy relies on implanted electronics in the retina, which allow for the conversion of images collected from an external camera into electrical impulses, to be sent dire... |
27 November 2009
03:46 GMT |
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In a new study published on Saturday, experts announce that they managed to stop the evolution of a dangerous eye disease in children by administering a single DNA shot into their eyes. The gene therapy proved so effective, that the four test subjects were able to walk without help from others in the end, which is ve... |
26 October 2009
05:24 GMT |
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It's a widely known fact that the brain, while indeed collecting all the stimuli it sees around us, only presents us with a minor fraction of those stimuli that spring into our conscious mind. When taking this into account, we are, in a sense, partially blind even before a doctor gives the verdict. A new scienti... |
22 October 2009
16:41 GMT |
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An international team of scientists has recently made a groundbreaking discovery, when experts have discovered that people who were partially blind, due to injury to half of their brains, were able to “see” facial expressions and body language in pictures of other individuals. All of the images were shown... |
29 September 2009
01:25 GMT |
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For over twenty years, scientists and patients in Germany have been pooling resources together to secure government fundings for advanced research into the field of artificial retina prosthetics. And advancements have been made at an ever-increasing rate. While other countries poured money in technology for space exp... |
18 September 2009
19:01 GMT |
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Blindness is arguably one of the things that have the ability to turn someone's life around. The disease carries a huge mental and physical strain on its victim, especially if the patient was not born blind. As such, finding a cure for its developed forms has been a long-standing goal for experts, one that has c... |
27 August 2009
18:41 GMT |
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Scientists have taken a major step towards curing blindness recently, when they managed to devise a method that allows patients suffering from the rare, inherited form of blindness known as Leber congenital amaurosis to see light for the first time in their lives. People born with the disease are completely blind sin... |
14 August 2009
01:52 GMT |
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One of the main causes for blindness in the United States is retinopathy, a degenerative eye condition that shows signs of progressive vision loss, until ultimately all sight disappears completely. However, there may still be hope for the countless patients suffering from the disease, as experts from the University o... |
3 July 2009
04:33 GMT |
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Millions of people in the world are affected by progressive vision-loss diseases or complete blindness, in what is one of the largest epidemics to date. Vision is lost either in accidents, or because of diseases and old age. That is to say, individuals with diabetes may develop diabetic retinopathy, while seniors... |
21 March 2009
07:05 GMT |
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Some forms of acquired deafness, more specifically those that can be prevented by people protecting their ears when they have to, could soon be cured, thanks to efforts made by researchers at the University of Leeds. Just recently, they took a step further in understanding the underlying mechanisms that in some cases... |
4 March 2009
11:02 GMT |
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Paintball is now one of the most popular sports in terms of recreation in the developed world, and people play it dressed up properly and using protection. Nevertheless, accidents can occur and, of those, the most dangerous involve hits to the eye. The high velocity at which the ball travels can cause blindness in an... |
16 January 2009
06:03 GMT |
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Speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2009, representatives of blind people's associations urged tech companies not to dismiss their needs when creating innovation, especially in the field of touchscreen devices. They are the new hype, a trend set forward by Apple Inc.'s iPhone, but they are unusa... |
9 January 2009
03:39 GMT |
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American scientists at the Harvard School of Medicine were puzzled to learn that one of their patients, who had suffered two strokes and had lost his eyesight completely, managed to navigate an obstacle course without tripping or touching any of the objects, and without help from another person or a cane. They hypoth... |
23 December 2008
09:54 GMT |
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The discussions about whether blind people dream in colors when they are asleep, if they dream in black and white, or if they experience color at all has been mainly philosophical at first. Now, the issue has moved into the realm of science, as researchers attempt to find out exactly what mechanisms are at work in th... |
16 December 2008
17:01 GMT |
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For quite a while now, some people with various degrees of vision loss claimed they could feel a certain object around them, even if they couldn't actually see it. This phenomenon was dubbed "blindsight" and doctors have been trying to find a reasonable, scientific explanation for it over the past few years. Now... |
15 October 2008
06:15 GMT |
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Recent European studies showed that blue light, part of the visible range of lights the human eye can see, could be responsible for retina deterioration in seniors with low amounts of antioxidants in their systems. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a disease that affects the macula, an important part of the r... |
14 October 2008
04:14 GMT |
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Mustard gas is a member of the sulfur mustards, which are a class of chemical warfare agents that in their pure state while at room temperature are colorless, odorless, viscous liquids. When used as a warfare agent, mustard gas has a yellow-brown color resembling that of mustard plants, thus the name. It was first de... |
3 June 2008
09:32 GMT |
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It is spelled PHaSR, however I'm more than convinced that the U.S. Department of Defense guys call it phaser. Whether the name is coincidental or not with that of the weapon used in the Star Trek series is not the issue, albeit it closely mimics some of those devices and tactics. They don't call them non-le... |
24 March 2008
10:25 GMT |
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These new tiny telescopes will not help people to see to the stars, but at least will save them from blindness. This could be so when it comes to advanced macular degeneration, the main factor of age-related blindness and starting its development usually after 55 years. The new optical prosthetics significantly impro... |
17 August 2007
04:36 GMT |
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Aging comes with an array of severe issues; now two of them have been connected. Plaques similar to those encountered in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) - the most common form of senile dementia - may be linked to the nerve damage of glaucoma; however, drugs employed in AD treatment were found... |
7 August 2007
07:20 GMT |
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