Scientific advances towards blindness cure

[Still Waters]

Three blind patients had their sight partly restored after scientists developed an eye implant in a breakthrough that is being called “a significant advance”. Below are other examples of scientific breakthroughs in the race to cure blindness.

* Stem cells grown on contact lenses could be a cure for a common cause of blindness, claim scientists.Australian researchers said that the world breakthrough could "dramatically improve" the sight of patients with damage to their cornea – the clear outer shell of the eye – caused by disease or injury.

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