Apparently, researchers recently cultured contact lenses with stem cells and inserted them onto blind peoples' eyes. All three people tested gained some eyesight back. Pretty intense stuff.
That is amazing. No offense to albinos but this could help them all get lisences to drive and make their lives a bit easier. As well as almost cure blindness and help people who don't like glasses get rid of them. I want to see the government fund this.
Imagine if the put this in every day contact lenses. Then people would slowly get cured
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Jun 04 2009 02:11 am
I thought albinos were considered to be legally blind.
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Jun 04 2009 02:23 am
Hacker wrote:
I thought albinos were considered to be legally blind.
No...just...no.
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Jun 04 2009 02:31 am
It depends on the type of albinism the person has, different strains cause varying degrees of trouble to the eyes. In particular, carriers of OCA1 can have really bad eyes. For some reason, people with albinism tend to other condition damaging their eyes... at least, according to Wikipedia they do.
On topic, yay for helping blind people.
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Jun 04 2009 04:24 am
God, fucking hell that made me laugh. It's alright Hacker, you could've said my name, this isn't like some drug discussion where you need that "Someone I know" bullshit.
You see, I am an ocular albino, and thus legally blind, and thus cannot drive. Not all of us are legally blind, however that's what causes my blindness. I know other albinos whose vision is worse than mine, and others whose is better.
Anyway, I doubt this would help us see any better. Glasses and all that shit can't help at all, it's more deep rooted I think, than what this type of thing could cure, anyway. Every eye professional I've ever seen has given me and all the other albinos I know the same message, we're fucked. It's not a degenerative condition, so we stay with what we got, but there's not a damned thing they can do to make us see any better, at the same time.
And as for getting us licenses, fuck that. At least up here in Canada where the CNIB's got our back, we get free busses and cheap movies. Yeah, suck it.
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Jun 04 2009 06:36 am
When will they be able to fix my ears? I think I'm going deaf.
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Jun 04 2009 09:28 am
Dr. Jeebus wrote:
Hacker wrote:
I thought you had the iPhone. Those can see YouTube
You'd certainly know better than Syd would what his own phone can do
I have an itouch. There are very little differences between that and the iPhone.
On a side note I think it might be a certain picture format that neither one can see. Because I can't see anything either
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Jun 04 2009 12:53 pm
The first 15 seconds of the video happens while Peter and Lois are in the dark. You should hear them though.
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Jun 04 2009 12:57 pm
I can get YouTube on the phone, yes. But I am on the Edge network, not 3G, so when I am not connected to Wi-Fi, images and embedded objects don't always load. Even when the videos load, there's no point playing them because they buffer endlessly.
