A retinal implant made big news with recent headlines saying it can restore vision lost to geographic atrophy. Here, experts ...

Blindness profoundly affects people's lives. Around the world, several laboratories, including the Biomedical Neuroengineering Lab at Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), are developing visual ...

Summary: Scientists have created an advanced visual neuroprosthesis that communicates bidirectionally with the brain, marking one of the biggest steps yet toward restoring functional vision. Unlike ...

Imagine slowly losing the center of your vision, like a camera lens fading to fog. That's what happens with geographic atrophy, a severe form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). It's the ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) causes progressive vision loss in many elderly people, and no treatment is available for the so-called atrophic form of the disease. A neurostimulation system ...

The Prima implant shown next to a household key to demonstrate its size. [Image courtesy of Science Corp.] Science Corp. today announced clinical trial data demonstrating the efficacy of its Prima ...

The NFL saw a dramatic increase in kickoff returns in the first week of action under this year's revised rules and that change appears to have helped convince the Eagles to trade for running back Tank ...

Patients exploring options for cataract surgery or Custom Lens Replacement now have access to one of the most advanced intraocular lenses available—the Bausch + Lomb enVista Envy lens—offered at ...

Summary: Researchers have developed a retinal prosthesis made of tellurium nanowires that restores partial vision in blind mice and enables near-infrared vision in primates. The implant, woven into a ...