{"id":245364,"date":"2026-10-14T02:12:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/partial-vision-restored-in-some-blind-patients-with-new-experimental-treatment"},"modified":"2026-10-14T02:12:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:12:57","slug":"partial-vision-restored-in-some-blind-patients-with-new-experimental-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/partial-vision-restored-in-some-blind-patients-with-new-experimental-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Partial Vision Restored in Some Blind Patients With New Experimental Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/partial-vision-restored-in-some-blind-patients-with-new-experimental-treatment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Night vision often fades first, followed by a narrowing of peripheral vision. In retinitis pigmentosa, this progressive loss can eventually lead to blindness.<\/p>\n<p>An experimental treatment has now helped some patients recover limited visual abilities.<\/p>\n<p>The approach combines a gene injection with special goggles. In a small trial involving 10 people with profound vision loss in both eyes, some participants became better able to detect objects, locate them, and reach toward them while using the device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Night vision often fades first, followed by a narrowing of peripheral vision. In retinitis pigmentosa, this progressive loss can eventually lead to blindness. An experimental treatment has now helped some patients recover limited visual abilities. The approach combines a gene injection with special goggles. In a small trial involving 10 people with profound vision loss [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}