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Gene therapy partially restores sight in blind people

Rank
Ran
40h
Updated
15h ago
Final
Outlets
6
Regions
2
Countries
6
Languages
5

The Guardian United Kingdom · English 7 Oct, 21:00 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Deutsch (2) · Suomi (1) · Ελληνικά (1) · 日本語 (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 40 hours.

2 4 6
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Guardian, 7 Oct, 21:00 UTC.
  2. Second country: Germany, with Der Spiegel.
  3. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 9 Oct, 05:20 UTC.
  4. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with The Asahi Shimbun.
  5. Last article: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

41 of 41 hours

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The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

17%83%

  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
  • Europe 5 outlets · 5 countries · 83%

First movers

  1. The Guardian 7 Oct, 21:00 UTC
  2. Der Spiegel +19h 12m
  3. Helsingin Sanomat +32h 20m
  4. SRF +32h 42m
  5. The Asahi Shimbun +35h 1m

Last to join

  1. ERT 9 Oct, 13:10 UTC
  2. The Asahi Shimbun 9 Oct, 08:01 UTC
  3. SRF 9 Oct, 05:41 UTC
  4. Helsingin Sanomat 9 Oct, 05:20 UTC
  5. Der Spiegel 8 Oct, 16:12 UTC

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 6 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 6 outlets, 2 public-service, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 1: Japan. Europe 5: Finland, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
German, Greek, English, Finnish, Japanese.
Timeline
Earliest article The Guardian, 7 Oct 2026, 21:00 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 21:10 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 13:10 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region International. Topic Science & health. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.19, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
9 Oct 2026 313 3.09 6 6 4 4 4.6

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Started 7 Oct, 21:10 UTC · Updated 9 Oct, 13:10 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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  • ERT Greece 9 Oct, 13:10 UTC
    Γονιδιακή θεραπεία μπορεί να αποκαταστήσει εν μέρει την όραση σε τυφλούς ανθρώπους
  • The Asahi Shimbun Japan 9 Oct, 08:01 UTC
    今年のノーベル賞「光遺伝学」使い視機能が一部回復 網膜色素変性症
  • SRF Switzerland 9 Oct, 05:41 UTC
    Meilenstein der Augenforschung – Licht für Blinde: Gentherapie zeigt erste Erfolge
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    • Meilenstein der Augenforschung – Neue Gentherapie gibt blinden Menschen erste Seheindrücke 9 Oct, 05:41 UTC
  • Helsingin Sanomat Finland 9 Oct, 05:20 UTC
    Näkö | Tutkimus: Sokeiden näkö voidaan palauttaa osittain geeni­terapialla
  • Der Spiegel Germany 8 Oct, 16:12 UTC
    Blinde: Optogenetik-Therapie gilt laut Studie als sicher
  • The Guardian United Kingdom 7 Oct, 21:00 UTC
    Gene therapy can partly restore sight in blind people, researchers reveal
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