Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., May 8--Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, its Doheny Retina Institute and Second Sight, LLC, are reporting on the initial ...

What is a Retinal Prosthesis? Light is detected by photoreceptors in our eyes, i.e., rods and cones, through photosensitive molecules present in the outer part of the photoreceptor of a healthy retina ...

The most promising treatment for blindness caused by the loss of light-sensitive cells in the retina is to implant retinal prostheses that provide artificial vision through the electrical stimulation ...

Retinal degenerative diseases, caused by progressive degeneration of the light-sensitive photoreceptors in the retina, is one of the major causes of vision loss and blindness, affecting tens of ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Innovations in Nerve Stimulation Therapy, Retinal Prosthesis, Sensory Prosthetic Arm, Brain Neurostimulation Device, and Robotic Surgical Microinstruments" report has ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Second Sight Medical Products (NASDAQ:EYES) a leading developer and marketer of implantable visual prosthetics that are intended to create an artificial form of useful ...

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 ...

Researchers at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) has led to the revolutionary development of an artificial liquid retinal prosthesis to counteract the effects of ...

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 ...

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 ...