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Summary Of A Cure In Sight By David Dobbs

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In his article, “A Cure in Sight,” David Dobbs writes about the end of blindness. Early on in this piece of writing, Dobbs states that doctors, scientists, and other professionals should plan on finding options for curing blindness by the year of 2026.

In the article, Dobbs discusses the several, potential methods of treatment, which may result in the cure of blindness. Right now, the treatments tested include gene-replacement, stem cells, and bionic implants. In order to reverse or prevent some types of eye damage, variations of gene-replacement, or the identifying a mutation that cripples retinas and fixing the problem by slipping a good copy of genes into the eye, could find, or even fix similar genetic defects early on. In addition to gene-replacement, stem cells, or cells in early stage of development, replace or reduce the failing retinal cells that cause blindness. Dobbs also talks about bionic retinas, or microchips that replace failed retinal cells by collecting or amplifying light. They bring a low-resolution version of sight to people with histories of blindness. …show more content…

Readers consider the writing expository because the author discusses research relating to the different approaches to curing blindness. In the article, Dobbs talks about research. Despite people considering the article as an expository one, Dobbs weaved his opinion into the writing. He did this because he wrote the article to prove his

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