Genetic discovery could help restore sight</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Genetic discovery could help restore sight"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Genetic,discovery,could,help,restore,sight"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">28-01-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Genetic discovery could help restore sight</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_8ayHPmnkzMYMfejLCkqH_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">London, UK (Financial Times): Researchers at Imperial College London and Manchester University have made nerve cells sensitive to light by adding a single gene. Their discovery could help bionic engineers develop a new type of artificial eye to restore sight to the blind. <br>Other researchers have developed an ultra-low power cochlear implant [to restore hearing], which is undergoing clinical trials in Canada, and hope to use similar technology in a prosthesis for the blind. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://news.ft.com/cms/s/a4cc14da-70d1-11d9-b572-00000e2511c8.html " target="blank">news.ft.com/cms/s/a4cc14da-70d1-11d9-b572-00000e2511c8.html </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show