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Stem Cells Show Promise As Blindness Treatment In Early Study
Human embryonic stem cells show promise in an early study involving two patients suffering from incurable, progressive forms of blindness. Both experienced marked improvement in their eyesight. read more..

Stem cell treatment for blindness
Stem cell treatments have yielded positive results in patients who lost their vision because of macular degeneration..

Blindness Study Opens the Door for Further Stem Cell Trials
Success, without side effects, will allow human research to continue...

The braille by ski - The Free Press

The braille by ski
The Free Press
Skiing the last couple weeks became more an exercise in Braille than actually skiing. Bumps appear and pass under foot as you flail away trying to stay upright. Snow all looks the sameEUR”a flat white sheet on a pitched angleEUR”and all the underlying .

Bundy heading to Nicaragua on mission trip - Madison Daily Leader

Bundy heading to Nicaragua on mission trip
Madison Daily Leader
This year, he and Charles Fullenkamp will make the trip and work with a group of blind people, teaching them how to use a walking stick to find their way around independently and how to use note-taker devices, which allow the user to type in braille .

MONTGOMERY: Student competes in New Jersey Braille Challenge - Packet Online

MONTGOMERY: Student competes in New Jersey Braille Challenge
Packet Online
By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer MONTGOMERY EUR” Fifth grader Mihir Doshi, a blind student at the Montgomery Township Lower Middle School, is hoping to make a second trip to the National Braille Challenge this year in California.

Delhi University's Braille Library overstocked with Hindi books - Deccan Herald

Delhi University's Braille Library overstocked with Hindi books
Deccan Herald
Blind postgraduate students are frustrated by lack of books in subjects other than Hindi at Delhi University's Braille Library. According to these students, though the library has 1254 books and recorded material for courses in the undergraduate level, .
SC's Braille Challenge being held in ColumbiaAiken Standard

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Braille EVMs help visually impaired cast votes - IBNLive.com

IBNLive.com

Braille EVMs help visually impaired cast votes
IBNLive.com
PTI Dehra Dun: Paving way for the visually impaired to have a decisive role in the country's democratic process, the Election Commission is encouraging use of EVMs having braille signs in Dehradun in Uttarakhand where polling is on to elect the state's .

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