By Kevin E. Noonan — The Fountain of Youth — an enduring aspiration, particularly as the ravages of age reduce human faculties prior to leading inexorably to death. Reduction in sight is the human faculty that can have the greatest effect on quality of life in the aged — a faculty that begins to decline in the 4th or 5th decade of life and doesn’t get better (when it does) without medical intervention. But what if there were a way to rejuvenate sight? That prospect is the tantalizing suggestion in a paper published on December 2nd entitled “Reprogramming to recover…
