Three decades ago, University of Utah bioengineer Richard A. Normann, PhD, had a radical new idea he hoped might create artificial sight for people who had lost their vision due to disease. If the ...

Editor's Note: This article is based on interviews conducted in 2020 and first appeared in Moran's 2020 Focus annual report. ELCHE, Spain—At the age of 58, Berna Gomez has lived the past 16 years of ...

In collaboration with their colleagues at the Donders Institute, researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have developed a simulator that enables artificial visual observations for ...

Army medical research funding has supported the development of innovative technologies to assist injured Service members and improve their quality of life. For example, advances in prosthetics for ...

Researchers have created a visual prosthesis, formed of an array of electrodes implanted in the visual cortex, allowing a blind woman to identify lights and shapes for the first time in 16 years. A ...

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

The “ Visual Prosthesis” Market report provides a detailed analysis of global market size, regional and country-level market size, segmentation market growth, market share, competitive Landscape, ...

The PRIMA system is a subretinal implant designed to restore central vision in GA patients by replacing failed photoreceptors ...

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 ...

In collaboration with their colleagues at the Donders Institute, researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have developed a simulator that enables artificial visual observations for ...