Why the original message has not reached in my inbox? Renuka ----- Original Message ----- From: "dr.u.n.sinha narain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 2:04 PM Subject: Re: [AI] New drug to treat blindness
> good news. i hope in my life time you will see the world. > > On 3/14/08, Aruni Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> New drug to treat blindness >> London (PTI): A ray of hope for millions of visually challenged people >> worldwide! A new drug to >> treat common forms of blindness is all set to go for clinical trial. >> Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed the drug to >> treat eye diseases affecting >> the elderly and diabetics, such as age-related muscular degeneration >> (AMD) and diabetic etinopathy, >> the British media reported on Friday. >> The research team, led by Prof Dave Bates and Dr Steve Harper of the >> varsity's Microvascular >> Research Laboratories, has identified a novel, naturally occurring form >> of a compound which >> inhibits the formation of new blood vessels -- a major cause of the >> "wet" type of AMD and also >> diabetic retinopathy. The research has been funded by Britain's leading >> eye research charity, Fight >> for Sight. >> The news of the drug comes just days after scientists in the United >> States had claimed that a >> bionic eye which can restore sight to the blind would be available >> commercially within two years. >> The second-generation device, current being trialled, consists of three >> elements. First, a >> miniature camera worn in a pair of dark glasses, which transmits images >> to a radio receiver >> implanted near the patient's eye. >> This then sends a signal on to a tiny silicon and platinum chip, about >> four millimetre square, that >> sits on the retina. The chip's electrodes stimulate the ganglion cells >> that transmit visual >> information to the optic nerve and onwards to the brain, which can then >> construct a visual image. >> "A plate is seen as a saucer of light, and a knife as a runway of light. >> It works by building up >> images like a dot-matrix printer, or pixels on a computer screen," lead >> researcher Prof Mark >> Humayun had said. >> >> http://www.thehindu.com/holnus/008200803141550.htm >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with >> the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> please >> visit the list home page at >> >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> > > > -- > u.n.sinha > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
