[nfb-talk] for Carter

[S Baker]

It appears you only read one link and stopprd.
I agree, I would never use electrodes either in my eyes or brain. That is not the state of current technology I wanted people to be aware of.
There are 2 current techniques being advanced.
1 Furthest along. The use of vectors(viruses with their infectious DNA removed and replaced with the correcting DNA your eye needs to function. The vector enters the cell, goes to the mitocondria and exchanges the good DNA for the bad. The cell is then capable of producing the correct proteins to let it function properly.
2      A ways to go. Stem cell- using your own cells that have had the defects corrected.(They do not use fetal cells). Those cells are exactly like current cell except for the correctio and injected into the eye and absorbed. They produce the proteins needed for the eye to function properly.
The above two techniques are what I hoped others and you would read about.
Science has told us a cure is just around the corner. What they haven't told us is how long the block is!
Steve


SRBaker


 

> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 05:57:34 -0700
> From: carter.tjoseph at gmail.com
> To: nfb-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] (no subject)
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> Who says it's against the NFB constitution to do research?
> 
> We generally don't, as an organization, do research on preventing 
> blindness and restoring lost vision, because that is not what we're 
> about. But what does it matter to us if others do these things, so 
> long as what they do does not interfere with what WE do? That even 
> includes the really weird chip-in-the-brain stuff, if you insist. 
> Personally, I think that stuff is kind of cool, but the devil will be 
> skating to work long before you'd ever get one of those in my head!
> 
> Joseph
> 
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 04:08:05AM +0000, S Baker wrote:
> >
> >As a member of NFB, I applaud everything the Organization has done, is doing, will do and with positive intentions has tried to do. Some have said it is against the NFB Constitution to to do research. I direct your attention to the last line in Article 2 of the NFB Constitution, to wit "and to take any other action which will improve the overall condition and standard of living of the blind." and I support the power of the human spirit.
> >Steve Baker
> >
> >
> >SRBaker
> >
> > 
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