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In First Human Test of Optogenetics, Doctors Aim to Restore Sight to the Blind

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In First Human Test of Optogenetics, Doctors Aim to Restore Sight to the Blind

By: Katherine Bourzac
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
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If all goes according to plan, sometime next month a surgeon in Texas will use a needle to inject viruses laden with DNA from light-sensitive algae into the eye of a legally blind person in a bet that it could let the patient see again, if only in blurry black-and-white.

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