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The cure for blindness could be eyeball bling. Researchers at Brown University have unveiled a groundbreaking technique that could potentially restore vision in individuals with retinal degenerative diseases like macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. The method involves injecting gold nanoparticles into the retina and stimulating them with near-infrared lasers to activate the visual system, effectively bypassing damaged photoreceptors.
All of that is a fancy way of saying they’ll laser gold into your eyeballs, and while this research is still in the preclinical stage, the results are promising. The ability to restore vision without complex surgery or genetic modification could revolutionize treatment paradigms for retinal degenerative conditions.
Source: Popular Mechanics