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Inexpensive Gel That Could Help Restore Sight

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, Society & Culture, Science, News

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Gel that costs pennies has restored sight to 7 out of 8 patients - Earth.com HPMC gel restores sight to people with untreatable condition, scientists say | Science, Climate & Tech News | Sky News Novel therapeutic strategies to restore vision in ocular hypotony (STRETCH): results from a prospective pilot series - PubMed Contact the show - coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Reggie Rizzou. On today's episode, we're going to be taking a look at a clear gel that

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only costs pennies, but maybe rewriting the future of blindness treatment. At Moorfield's

1:18.1

Eye Hospital, researchers have restored vision in seven out of eight patients whose eyes had

1:23.5

literally begun to collapse due to dangerously low pressure.

1:29.4

The condition is called hypotony.

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