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Better known as the antidiabetic-slash-weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, semaglutide has become something of a ‘wonder drug,’ with research regularly discovering its additional medical benefits. However, a new study has found that the drug potentia… Continue reading Ozempic associated with up to 7x increased risk of rare ‘eye stroke’
CRISPR gene-editing has improved the vision of patients with an inherited form of blindness, according to results of a Phase 1/2 clinical trial. The results not only give new hope to patients with the condition, but show that CRISPR could be put to use… Continue reading CRISPR restores some vision to blind patients in clinical trial
[tpsully]’s Radar Glasses are designed as a way of sensing the world without the benefits of normal vision. They consist of a distance sensor on the front and a vibration …read more Continue reading ‘Radar’ Glasses Grant Vision-free Distance Sensing
Neuroscientists have shown that blind people recognize basic faces using the same brain regions as sighted people – even if the face shapes are delivered as audio rather than through the visual cortex – in an interesting look into neuroplasticity.Conti… Continue reading Video-to-sound tech allows blind people to recognize faces
While seeing-eye dogs can be very helpful to the blind, raising and training them is a long and expensive process. Scientists have therefore recently started investigating the possibility of outsourcing the job to dog-like quadruped robots.Continue Rea… Continue reading Quadruped robots may one day give seeing-eye dogs a run for their money
If you don’t like getting needles in the arm, imagine getting them in your eyes. That’s what people with wet age-related macular degeneration have to do, but thanks to new research, those injections may soon be replaced by painless eyedrops.Continue Re… Continue reading Blindness-preventing eyedrops could replace ocular injections
Researchers have used 3D nanotechnology to successfully grow human retinal cells, opening the door to a new way of treating age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness in the developed world.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, Science… Continue reading Nanotech used to grow eye cells as a potential treatment for blindness
The largest-ever global genetic study of glaucoma has uncovered more genes associated with the disease, including never-before-identified genes that could be targeted to prevent the optic nerve damage that leads to irreversible blindness.Continue Readi… Continue reading Genetic discovery could lead to a treatment for glaucoma blindness
It’s been about seven years since researchers used the CRISPER gene-editing system to reverse a blindness-inducing condition called retinitis pigmentosa in stem cells outside the body. Now, using a more refined version of CRISPR, a different research t… Continue reading Vision restored in mice thanks to refined CRISPR system
It can be difficult for blind people to learn to read braille, as they don’t have any way of seeing which character the dots that they’re feeling represent. That’s where the BrailleWear glove comes in, as it verbally tells them.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading BrailleWear glove tells blind users which letters they’re feeling