A wireless implant helped patients with severe macular degeneration regain usable vision. The results point toward a new ...

In an important step toward visual prostheses, biocompatible electrodes can convert infrared light into nerve impulses, as ...

A new study in The New England Journal of Medicine revealed that the PRIMA brain computer interface (BCI) retinal implant helped people with advanced age-related macular degeneration regain some ...

A new technology may allow patients to recover vision for conditions that were previously thought irreversible ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Science Corporation reported positive preliminary results of a clinical trial examining its Prima retinal ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a common eye condition in older adults that can affect central vision. Geographic atrophy is an advanced form of AMD that causes permanent vision changes.

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) causes progressive vision loss in a large number of elderly people, and no treatment ...

A small wireless chip and a pair of smart glasses are offering new hope to people who thought they’d never read again. The groundbreaking device, called PRIMA, has partially restored vision in people ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- At 17, Jirair Semerdijan of Henderson, Nevada completely lost his sight to retinitis pigmentosa. The condition destroyed part of his retina. He lost his sight and his ...

Scientists have used an eye implant to improve the vision of dozens of people left functionally blind by age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The implant, which measures 2 millimetres by 2 ...

June 24, 2009 — On June 17, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a dexamethasone 0.7-mg intravitreal implant (Ozurdex, Allergan, Inc) for the treatment of macular edema after branch ...

Microelectronic retinal implants are an example of research underway to restore some vision to those with severe vision loss by replacing a defect or missing link along the visual pathway.