Research has romanced eyesight restoration for long now, and if the
latest news is to be believed, this love story did have a happy
ending outcome.
A multinational crop of scientists (from UC Berkeley, University of
Munich and the University of Washington) have made some advancements
which offers the easiest and the cheapest way to restore the
light
sensitivity of our eyes. A chemical- AAQ
(acrylamide-azobenzene-quaternary ammonium) was injected into the eyes
of blind mice and the results show that their vision has indeed been
restored, though partially. Little quantity of AAQ can cause this effect
for a few hours at a stretch, and is quite uncomplicated and less
extreme than substitutive methods like stem cell therapy or synthetic
implants.
Better
forms of the chemical are being examined which can spread out its
effect to several days as compared to a few hours, and the ultimate goal
is obviously to advance the research such that the human patients could
take advantage of this.
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