The clinical trial enrolled 38 adults aged 60 and older who had advanced geographic atrophy, the late stage of macular ...

An editorial published in the New England Journal of Medicine 1 referred to the Photovoltaic Retina Implant Microarray (PRIMA ...

In advanced dry disease, a key problem is failure of retinal pigment epithelium, often shortened to RPE. These cells help ...

A tiny wireless chip placed at the back of the eye is giving people with severe vision loss something they had been told they ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to this tiny piece of tech, people with profound vision loss can now read, do cross word puzzles, and navigate public ...

Scientists at USC are launching a new trial to test a tiny stem cell implant that could restore vision in people with ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the past, patients who were blind from retinitis pigmentosa or other hereditary photoreceptor diseases had very few options. The Argus® II Retinal Prosthesis System (Second Sight Medical Products ...

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 ...