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Klimbatize
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100624/ap_on_he_me/us_med_stem_cells_blindness
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Dozens of people who were blinded or otherwise suffered severe eye damage when they were splashed with caustic chemicals had their sight restored with transplants of their own stem cells — a stunning success for the burgeoning cell-therapy field, Italian researchers reported Wednesday.
The treatment worked completely in 82 of 107 eyes and partially in 14 others, with benefits lasting up to a decade so far. One man whose eyes were severely damaged more than 60 years ago now has near-normal vision. |
Yay, science....again. Can you imagine not being able to see much of anything for 60 years, and suddenly getting that back?
I'm all for stem cell research. It offers so many possibilities.
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Vaenamoenen
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| Can you imagine not being able to see much of anything for 60 years, and suddenly getting that back? |
Not really. Wonder how your brain handles that type of information, suppose the patient has been blind almost forever.
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sidewaydriver
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Imagine being born blind and then as an adult, you get your sight for the first time. I wonder how they would handle that? Could they even have imagined what sight or colors were like before? You think they'd still have their other hightened senses?
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Klimbatize
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This is for people who had been able to see, but lost their eyesight for various reasons, usually accidents. They could handle it just fine. You should read some of the stuff the guy who had been blind for 60 years said. He was ecstatic as hell. The good thing is the excellent vision for all of the successful procedures has maintained itself for years, some of them having the procedure 10 years ago. It looks like it's a permanent fix.
I'm not sure if this would work for people born blind, at least not yet.
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Atma
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Joined: Apr 29 2010
Location: Cincinnati, OH
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Absoultely amazing. I'm totally for this.
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The Opponent
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Joined: Feb 24 2010
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I wonder if it's possible for a person who lived blind all his life suddenly get vision and go insane from the visual overstimulation.
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LeshLush
Joined: Oct 19 2009
Location: Nashville, TN
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In Oliver Sack's book Musicophilia, there's a part where he discusses a man who was born blind who underwent a neural operation that gave him sight. Dude would be fine for an hour or two, but then his brain wouldn't be able to handle it, and the visuals would kind of wash away. He found the sensation so uncomfortable that he wished he had just stayed blind.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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It would be great if this could fix my vision so that I didn't need glasses.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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Wait, they used their own stem cells? Then what's the deal with fetal stem cells? Are they stemmier or something?
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