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...patients have a faulty gene that gives them a form of Leber's Congenital Amaurocis, a major cause of congenital blindness. Born with limited sight, the patients are expected to become totally blind as they grow older. They have enough photoreceptor cells, but the cells don't work because one of the genes is a dud. Now Ali is firing functional versions of the faulty gene back into the photoreceptor cells, and the one-time procedure could permanently cure the blindness. Johnson's condition - a faulty RPE65 gene - is incredibly rare. But Ali says the procedure, if it works, could...
...severe immune responses to the new matter in their eyes - always a danger. Scientists are especially hopeful because the procedure worked so well in its animal trials. Scanning the eyes of dogs that underwent the procedure, researchers could see how the photoreceptor cells had changed. More important, the previously blind dogs could see well enough to navigate through a maze...
...drive to systemize, to look for patterns," says Simon Baron-Cohen, professor of developmental psychopathology at Cambridge University. "Music is a system, the intervals between notes and the relationship between keys are quantitative. Even when you improvise you are, in a sense, following the rules. And because he's blind, a lot more of his brain may be allocated to auditory information...
...will be released this fall. But there's an irony to Hosseini's success: he became famous as the face and voice of a country he hadn't seen since he was a kid, and whose sufferings under the Taliban he completely escaped. "It's sheer luck," he says, "blind, dumb luck that I'm not there. My family happened to leave before the Soviets, they had the means to leave and make a new life. I felt ashamed, like I should have suffered more...
...packed pub on Friday night by MOS’ indie-cred, though a number of concertgoers had never heard of the duo. “It’s cooler to go see a band I’ve never heard of than go see Third Eye Blind,” said Spencer A. Murray...