As someone who's eternally curious and very fond of science and technology, I was perusing recent articles in the famous academic journal Nature and came across an interesting review article: $1. In sharp contrast to most aspects of society at the start of these roaring 20s, very positively exciting things appear to be happening in medicine.

The article basically looks back at the last decade of research in regrowing retinal cells (from the epithelium for our friends with RP to the ganglia for our friends with glaucoma) without the pressure in mainstream media for sensationalism. I know many people here have faced vision loss and are hurting a lot. For you, I would like to share the conclusion of this paper:


>As recently as a decade ago, restoration of visual function in degenerative retinal disease seemed an audacious and perhaps unattainable goal. Progress in regenerative medicine, gene therapy, and micro-electronic prosthetics have brought us closer to this achievement and inspire confidence that it can be attained. PSC-derived cellular transplantation is in advanced clinical trials for RPE replacement and is on the verge of human trials for photoreceptor replacement. While RGC transplants face greater hurdles, significant progress has been made in this domain as well. Prosthetic vision restoration through optoelectronic devices, optogenetic gene therapy, and small-molecule photoswitches are all in or nearing human clinical trial work, following successful animal model studies. **Progress in the first decade since identifying this audacious goal has been substantial, and it is likely that multiple vision restoration technologies will reach clinical use in the next decade.**

While I'd advice not to get your hopes up **too** much (there's always unknown unknown's research might get stuck at), it seems we have a very interesting and exciting decade ahead of us indeed. Cheers!