Technology for restoring vision is still at an early stage, but a new kind of retinal prosthesis allows blind rats to sense light, a study shows. The new device was implanted in the eyes of visually ...

Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., May 8--Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, its Doheny Retina Institute and Second Sight, LLC, are reporting on the initial ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Innovations in Nerve Stimulation Therapy, Retinal Prosthesis, Sensory Prosthetic Arm, Brain Neurostimulation Device, and Robotic Surgical Microinstruments" report has ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Second Sight Medical Products (NASDAQ:EYES) a leading developer and marketer of implantable visual prosthetics that are intended to create an artificial form of useful ...

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 ...

SYLMAR, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (NASDAQ:EYES) ("Second Sight" or "the Company"), a developer, manufacturer and marketer of implantable visual prosthetics that are ...

A major therapeutic challenge, the retinal prostheses that have been under development during the past ten years can enable some blind subjects to perceive light signals, but the image thus restored ...

Retinal degenerative diseases, caused by progressive degeneration of the light-sensitive photoreceptors in the retina, is one of the major causes of vision loss and blindness, affecting tens of ...

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 ...

A new study suggests that injecting gold nanoparticles into the retina and stimulating those particles with lasers could restore partial vision for these patients. The gold nanoparticles, excited by ...