An international research team led by Prof. Dr. Sedat Nizamoğlu from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering ...

Electronic retinal implants such as the PRIMA system bypass damaged cells to restore partial central vision, bringing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. José-Alain Sahel, M.D., holding the PRIMA implant. (CREDIT: UPMC) A small wireless chip and a pair of smart glasses are offering ...

Argus II is a novel healthcare technology that restores vision in RP patients. Improvements in visual acuity are expected to lead to improvements in patient self-confidence, decreasing their ...

An electrical device implanted under the retina helps to restore some visual acuity to people with age-related macular degeneration. Scientists have used an eye implant to improve the vision of dozens ...

A clinical trial led by Stanford University School of Medicine has demonstrated that a wireless retinal prosthesis can help restore vision lost to advanced macular degeneration. The results, published ...

For the first time, researchers have restored some vision to people with a common type of eye disease by using a prosthetic retinal implant. If approved for broader use in the future, the treatment ...

Good news, Dame Judi Dench: A new prosthetic retinal implant has restored limited vision to people suffering from an advanced form of macular degeneration, allowing some who were nearly blind to read ...

An international research team led by Prof. Dr. Sedat Nizamoğlu from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koç University has ...

The Argus II, a “bionic eye”, is intended to provide electrical stimulation of the retina to elicit visual perception in blind subjects with severe to profound retinitis pigmentosa, according to the ...

The advent of bionic eye technology has revolutionized the way we perceive possibilities in medical science. With this technology, an astounding 95% of blind patients have regained some measure of ...