Brain Reorganizes to Adjust for Loss of Vision

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A new study from Georgia Tech shows that when patients with macular degeneration focus on using another part of their retina to compensate for their loss of central vision, their brain seems to compensate by reorganizing its neural connections. Age–related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly. The study appears in the December edition of the journal Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

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Doctors say marrow transplant may have cured AIDS

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An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease twenty months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said.

While researchers--and the doctors themselves--caution that the case might be no more than a fluke, others say it may inspire a greater interest in gene therapy to fight the disease that claims 2 million lives each year. The virus has infected 33 million people worldwide.

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