Researchers at Stanford University have accomplished what was once considered impossible. They have partially restored vision in blind. Check out this Youtube video to see how they did it
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A great breakthrough. That will be inspiring for human blindness treatment. But still curious about how to reconnect eyes with brain to partially recovery sight, rat primary cells generated cells implanted or something else?