The procedure has been hailed as the first step in humans of efforts to be able to restore sight in blind people.

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The executive's family photos are part of a changeable display on an interactive wall screen, and her personal items can be tucked out of sight behind blind wall panels.

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The gospels are replete with stories of Jesus healing the sick, raising the dead, making the lame walk, restoring sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf.

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Restoring sight to the blind is, literally, a miracle.

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In most cases the simple procedures restore sight to long-blind persons.

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Tony Watson, 69, is blind in one eye and wants the drug Lucentis to save the sight in his other eye.

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The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) said that almost two million people in the UK were living with sight loss.

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