News tagged with retinal prosthesis
Nanosized diamonds enable progress in retinal prostheses
Research groups in several countries are making progress in retinal prosthesis development. If they achieve their aims, patients who have gone blind, due to loss of their photoreceptors, could recover a better ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 17, 2011 |
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Caltech scientists create robot surrogate for blind persons in testing visual prostheses
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the "visual" experience of a blind person who has been implanted with a visual ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Stimulating sight: New retinal implant developed
(PhysOrg.com) -- Inspired by the success of cochlear implants that can restore hearing to some deaf people, researchers at MIT are working on a retinal implant that could one day help blind people regain a ...
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Solar-panel-like retinal prosthesis could better restore sight to blind
(Phys.org) -- Using tiny solar-panel-like cells surgically placed underneath the retina, scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a system that may someday restore sight to people ...
May 13, 2012 |
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Bionic eye hope blends lasers and gold
A novel approach to restoring sight using a ‘bionic eye' is being investigated at Swinburne University of Technology.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 12, 2011 |
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'Bionic eye' implant offers hope to the blind
For a man whose view of the world has slowly faded to black over 30 years, a device that allows him to see flashes of light has enkindled his hope of one day gazing upon his grandson's face.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 03, 2011 |
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Australia reveals prototype 'bionic' eye
Bionic Vision Australia (BVA) today unveils their wide-view neurostimulator concept - a bionic eye that will be implanted into Australia's first recipient of the technology.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 30, 2010 |
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Lighting up nerves could help people with eye condition Retinitis Pigmentosa
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are developing a new genetic engineering technique called optogenetics that they hope could ultimately lead to a new treatment for people with the eye condition Retinitis Pigmentosa, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 28, 2010 |
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Engineers Will Create Planetary Rover From Retinal Implant Test Robot
(PhysOrg.com) -- The research, led by Wolfgang Fink, will aid both people with visual impairments and scientists involved in planetary exploration.
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Experimental treatments restore partial vision to blind people
Two experimental treatments, a retinal prosthesis and fetal tissue transplant, restored some vision to people with blinding eye diseases. The findings, presented at Neuroscience 2009, the annual meeting of the Society for ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 20, 2009 |
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ORNL, Southern Cal set sights on preventing blindness
Blindness in millions of people with diseases that starve eye tissue and nerves of oxygen might be averted with a procedure being developed by researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Southern California ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Microchip is helping restore vision to the blind
Last year, Wentai Liu watched as surgeons implanted a microchip he had designed into the eye of a blind patient. For Liu, a professor of electrical engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, ...
Jun 24, 2008 |
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USC researchers begin tests on next generation of retinal implant
Patients who have gone blind are a step closer to perhaps one day regaining some of their sight. Researchers at the University of Southern California, Doheny Eye Institute, announced today the next step in their efforts to ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 16, 2007 |
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