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The project, involving patients in the United States, Mexico and Europe, is part of a burst of
recent research aimed at one of science's most-sought-after holy grails: making the blind see.
Some of the 37 other participants further along in the project can differentiate plates from cups,
tell grass from sidewalk, sort white socks from dark, distinguish doors and windows, identify
large letters of the alphabet, and see where people are, albeit not details about them.
Linda Morfoot, 65, of Long Beach, Calif., blind for 12 years, says she can now toss a ball into a
basketball hoop, follow her nine grandchildren as they run around her living room and "see
where the preacher is" in church.
"For someone who's been totally blind, this is really remarkable," said Andrew P. Mariani, a
program director at the National Eye Institute. "They're able to get some sort of vision."
Scientists involved in the project, the artificial retina, say they have plans to develop the
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