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1 year later: Las Vegas boy with rare skin condition continues recovery from eye surgery
Life for a remarkable 8-year-old Las Vegas boy has gotten much easier since getting a life-changing surgery back in September.
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Shot to the eye brings back vision in mice – humans next
A breakthrough treatment has allowed damaged retinal cells to regenerate themselves. The current research has been conducted ...
Genome of a 28-eyed jellyfish could provide insight on evolution of vision
One of the biggest mysteries of evolution is how species first developed complex vision. Jellyfish are helping scientists ...
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Baotou Iron & Steel to Expand Vast Toxic Lake Dump at Inner Mongolia Rare Earths Complex
Baotou Iron & Steel Group in China’s Inner Mongolia province is planning to spend 2 billion yuan (US$280 million) to expand a ...
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Beacon's rare eye disease gene therapy signals vision function improvements in early phase 2 data
Data from Beacon’s interim six-month safety and efficacy results from a phase 2, announced May 6, pointed to improvements across “several key measures” of visual function, the private ...
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J&J gene therapy fails to improve visual navigation in late-stage rare eye disease trial
XLRP is a severe and rare form of retinitis pigmentosa, a progressive eye disease that causes photoreceptors to break down over time, eventually leading to blindness. The disease often manifests ...
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Can China hold the world to ransom over rare earths?
China reportedly instructed South Korean companies to stop exporting defence-related products to the United States if they contained rare earth products from China. Those are the natural metals ...
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What Are Rare Earth Metals?
By Eli Tan Reporting from San Francisco For years, the Chinese government has worked to control the export of rare earths, a group of metals used in an array of products, as common as ...
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Why Are Rare Earth Metals So Precious?
In response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on China, which currently stand at 145 percent, the country has played its trump card: rare earth metals. Along with other minerals that are ...
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Putin Allies Woo Trump with Rare Earth Mineral Deposits
to jointly explore Russia's rare earth metal deposits, which he claimed are more extensive than those of Ukraine that Trump has his eye on. Critics of the Russian government warned against such ...
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FDA OKs First Gene Therapy Implant for a Rare Eye Disease
March 7, 2025 – The FDA has approved a new gene therapy for macular telangiectasia type 2 (MacTel), a rare eye disease that causes vision loss. The approval marks the first and only ...
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Advances in Corneal Healing Research Drive New Treatments for Rare Eye Diseases
Rare eye diseases are the leading cause of untreatable blindness in Europe and affect people of all ages. The RESTORE VISION scientific team has identified seven rare ocular conditions that impact the ...