WOW! A unique Hungarian vision restoration therapy (vrt) can give back the eyesight for many!

The therapy can give back the eyesight even for blind people, and its tests on Hungarian patients are going to start soon. 

According to Qubit, the cooperation of Arnold Szabó (Retina Laboratory of the Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology at Semmelweis University, Faculty of Medicine), molecular and cellular biologist Botond Roska (who leads the neurobiology research group of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel), and Dániel Hillier (ELTE and Pázmány Péter Universities, Budapest) developed the new therapy that may mean a

breakthrough in treating impaired vision and even blindness.

In short, the Hungarian researchers managed to restore the light sensitivity of the retina by using the mechanism of how snakes can see. Interestingly, snakes cannot only see with their eyes but they can also sense heat. The group was able to get the ion channels playing a significant role in that process into the human retina with the help of viruses and managed to activate them with infrared light, which is how they could restore the light sensitivity of the retina.