by Bruce Brown | March 8, 2021 | Medical
Retinal implants are attention-getters. Everyone understands the dramatic benefit of helping blind people see, similar to helping wheelchair-bound people rise up and walk on their own. We’ve written about retinal implants several times in the past few years. We...
by Bruce Brown | December 4, 2019 | Health
People with impaired vision lose more than their visual acuity. The loss of independence can lead to changin their place of residence and requiring assistance with certain everyday tasks. We wrote about NuEyes in 2016, a lightweight wearable headset that projects...
by Bruce Brown | May 5, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Work in biologic implants proceeds at a fast pace on many fronts. We’ve covered 3D printed cartilage implants to repair knees at Duke University, research in South Korea to create implants to deliver drugs, and work at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical...
by Alfred Poor | April 26, 2017 | General News, Medical
Researchers are making further advances in creating an artificial retina to restore vision for some people with severely limited vision. In this case, scientists at Okayama University have conducted animal trials to demonstrate the effectiveness of a new technology....
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by Alfred Poor | July 15, 2016 | General News, Medical
We’ve covered retinal implants in the past, including products from Retinal Implant AG. The company recently participated in a clinical trial with a patient at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital in England, which has produced amazing results. The adult...
