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This is for seeing, but the same could happen anytime with hearing.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43458365
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43458365
Breakthroughs Do Happen Here and There — Macular Degeneration: 'I've Been Given My Sight Back'
- Thread starter GregCA
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Pretty awesome.
"Coffey said the improvement in vision – often measured in lines on a reading chart – was much greater than they had hoped for: "We said we'd get three [out of the proposed 10] patients with vision recovery of three lines. They probably wouldn't get reading vision back.
"The first patient has got six lines improvement, which is astounding, and the second has five lines and he seems to be getting better as the months go by. They are both really reading. At best [the woman] could read about one word a minute with magnification. She is now reading 80 words a minute and [the man] is reading 50."" from this https://www.theguardian.com/society...blindness-cure-after-restoring-patients-sight
Though sadly this also proves that things take time. "The team will continue to monitor the patients in this trial for the next five years to make sure that the treatment is safe and doesn't cause tumors or other adverse effects." Here's some more info: https://www.sciencealert.com/uk-wom...stem-cell-treatment-that-could-cure-blindness
And here's the research study: https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4114
"Coffey said the improvement in vision – often measured in lines on a reading chart – was much greater than they had hoped for: "We said we'd get three [out of the proposed 10] patients with vision recovery of three lines. They probably wouldn't get reading vision back.
"The first patient has got six lines improvement, which is astounding, and the second has five lines and he seems to be getting better as the months go by. They are both really reading. At best [the woman] could read about one word a minute with magnification. She is now reading 80 words a minute and [the man] is reading 50."" from this https://www.theguardian.com/society...blindness-cure-after-restoring-patients-sight
Though sadly this also proves that things take time. "The team will continue to monitor the patients in this trial for the next five years to make sure that the treatment is safe and doesn't cause tumors or other adverse effects." Here's some more info: https://www.sciencealert.com/uk-wom...stem-cell-treatment-that-could-cure-blindness
And here's the research study: https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4114
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