Showing posts with label blindness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blindness. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Scientists restore vision in a mouse

Through the years, there have been reports of various cures for blindness, but this new one seems to be definitive. Researchers and scientists from the University of Berkley have managed to restore the vision of a mouse after injecting a chemical directly in their eyes. This chemical is known as AAQ, and acts as a kind of photo interrupter, and which does is to unite the ion channel proteins with cells from the surface of the retina. When exposed...