Gene-tweaking animal studies seen as advances for restoring hearing, vision
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Researchers have reported advances in restoring sight and hearing, hoping that it would point the way to new treatment strategies for patients with certain types of impaired vision and hearing. In mid-February 2005, a team of US and Japanese researchers had restored hearing in deafened guinea pigs and another group of scientists working with mice had successfully regrown the optic nerve, as significant step toward restoring sight in individuals with glaucoma and injuries that destroy the optic nerve.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2005
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Inflammation suspected in eye disorders
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Several researchers have revealed new evidence about the relationship between cardiovascular disease, inflammation, and eye diseases such as retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration. Studies have found that the changes associated with retinopathy predict a range of systemic vascular diseases like coronary heart disease, diabetes and stroke.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2005
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