Cracking The Code To Treat Blindness | Mach | NBC News
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Neuroscientist Sheila Nirenberg is currently working on a prosthetic device that could potentially help restore vision and help patients with retinal degenerative diseases . She was awarded a MacArthur Foundation grant for her work in optogenetics. Eitan Armon is a Columbia University sophomore who was recently diagnosed with Rod-Cone dystrophy, a condition that causes vision loss that can worsen over time. He got in touch with Dr. Nirenberg after learning about her work.
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Cracking The Code To Treat Blindness | Mach | NBC News
May God bless you Sheila Nirenberg for working so diligently to crack our sight code! My dad lost his sight due to glaucoma... Will your discovery be able to help people with this disease at some point? Or do you know anyone who maybe has come as far as you have with this other disease? My dad is a willing participant and I'm sure he could volunteer on any studies. He is 87 as of this year, but still full of life! THANK YOU again for dedicating your life to help others!
God bless Sheila.
She deserves a special place in heaven.
Hello. I'm legally blind. Most of my retinas, due to a birth defect, are scarred and basically destroyed. I do have vision but I'm severely nearsighted (vision is 20/200). I suppose this is because the retina that I do have can't send a signal required to generate normal vision at a distance. I'm wondering how you have progressed since 2011 (the date of your initial videos)? How close are you to trying your device on humans? There are a lot of things I can't do because I have to be too close before I can see what's going on. Some things such as driving where you have to see things at a distance are simply out of reach at this time. I pray that you are making good progress and might have a solution that can be tried in humans in the near future .. say 5 years? Please let us know if you're making progress. Thank you, and keep up the work.
The things is there something that warantees the language eyes "speak" to the brain is the same for every person? I don't think that is the case. Maybe use some AI to learn the language and decode it for a given person.
“How am I going to learn? How am I going to be a friend? How am I going to work?How am I going to be a spouse or father”
You have no idea how offensive those comments and just the general message of this video is to blind people. This video speaks to two things: How much people with disabilities are segregated and ignored by society, and how much ableism is tolerated.
You clearly have not met any people with disabilities in your life, because if you did, you will know that we learn and work and are friends and spouses and fathers, and we do so just as well.
I hope given enough time, you will unlearn the ablist attitudes you have that were conditioned on you by society.
Wes 77 nonetheless, it's his perspective and shouldn't be censored.
How is this Able-ism? He is losing a part of his life that he relied on since he was born, and he wonders how he will adapt to that and how his own life will change. He isn't saying that blind people don't learn, have no friends, are unemployable, or are bad fathers and spouses, he is simply wondering how he will continue become those things when he is blind.
You are seeing fault where there is none my friend.
I disagree, as someone who has retinitis pigmentosa, i've posed those questions to myself many times and probably will for a while. When you lose such a huge part of your senses, questioning your ability to adapt and function despite these changes is a necessary process for a lot of us.
what a weird comment... that's his perspective on the situation and these concerns are fair.
Idiotic mindset