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Revolutionary bionic eye implant connected directly to brain allows blind woman to see again

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A blind woman has begun seeing again with a new bionic eye implant.

In what is believed to be a significant scientific breakthrough, the woman, 30, was able to see flashes of coloured light, lines and spots when signals were sent to her brain from a computer.

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