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Hungarian receives award for potential blindness cure.

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A researcher, born in Budapest, has made ground-breaking discoveries that are already the subject of clinical trials on blind volunteers.

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A gene-based therapy that reprograms human eye cells to function as the light-sensitive receptors required for human vision has been discovered by a researcher.

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The man behind this discovery hails from Hungary & is known as Botond Roska.

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He also won the Körber Prize for European Science 2020, in Hamburg, Germany which came with a check for €1 million ($1.18 million.

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This technique is aiming to reawaken the blind people's retinas and restore their vision.

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For the time being, the procedure yields eyesight that is equivalent to watching black-and-white television.

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