Researchers develop bionic eye implant

Source: The Stanford Daily

According to a recent study in the journal Nature Photonics, the treatment, which stimulates visual neurons with high resolution, could restore sight for people suffering from retinal pigmentosa and age-related macular degen ...
Full article at: The Stanford Daily  More like this  2 days ago, 4:50am CDT

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Technique Aims to Restore Vision

Source: National Institutes of Health

In a proof-of-principle study, researchers developed retinal implants that can potentially deliver images to surviving neurons in the eye and restore vision. A pinpoint-sized photovoltaic chip implanted under the retina of a blind rat (u ...
Full article at: National Institutes of Health  More like this  3 days ago, 10:45am CDT

Stanford retinal implant combats vision loss

Source: optics.org

One characteristic of retinal conditions such as age-related macular degeneration is that while the photoreceptors themselves are lost, the neurons in the inner retinal layers largely survive. Hence a numb ...
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