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Totally blind mice get sight back

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The team in Oxford said their studies closely resemble the treatments that would be needed in people with degenerative eye disease.

Similar results have already been achieved with night-blind mice.

Experts said the field was advancing rapidly, but there were still questions about the quality of vision restored.

Patients with retinitis pigmentosa gradually lose light-sensing cells from the retina and can become blind.

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Totally blind mice have had their sight restored by injections of light-sensing cells into the eye, UK researchers report.

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Dual-focus contact lens prototypes ordered by Pentagon

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The Pentagon has put in an order for prototype contact lenses that give users a much wider field of vision.

The lenses are designed to be paired with compact head-up display (HUD) units – glasses that allow images to be projected onto their lenses.

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