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Blindness breakthrough

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Three blind people have had their sight partly restored by new digital implants. Robert Maclaren, Professor of Ophthalmology at Oxford University, who was involved in the development of the chip and Mikka Terho who was blind but was helped to see when he was used as a test case, outline the breakthrough.


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