Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Letting the Blind See?

"Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) have developed a potential therapy for blindness that involves delivering a gene encoding a light-sensitive protein to inner retinal cells, enabling photosensitivity in these cells and restoring visual function in mouse models," according MedicalNewsToday.

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  1. This is very exciting news for people who are blind or visually impaired. Today, I wanted the share with you a revolutionary assistive technology for visually impaired. It's a tiny camera attachment that reads text and converts it to audio in real time. Its artificial vision powered blind assistive technology help to those with vision problems, recognize money notes, colors, products and even people's faces.

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