- Frisky 4-year-old Ginger Snap doesn't know it, but she could become the cat with the bionic eye.
The auburn Abyssinian is part of a cohort of cats at the University of Missouri with a hereditary condition that slowly causes blindness. This makes them ideal subjects to test a silicon microchip that holds promise for restoring at least partial sight to people who are robbed of vision by retinal diseases.
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