Scientists have created an advanced visual neuroprosthesis that communicates bidirectionally with the brain, marking one of the biggest steps yet toward restoring functional vision.
It's been a long time since Alice Charton got a good look at a human face. There are plenty of people moving through her world, of course—her husband, her friends, her doctors, her neighbors—but ...
In an important step toward visual prostheses, biocompatible electrodes can convert infrared light into nerve impulses, as ...
Science Corporation has developed a revolutionary retinal implant called PRIMA. This eye chip restores functional vision for individuals with irreversible sight loss. The technology uses ...
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 ...
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of blindness in the older population. Geographic atrophy is an advanced stage of dry AMD, characterized by irreversible vision loss due to the ...
A groundbreaking retinal implant, PRIMA, is restoring central vision in patients with geographic atrophy (GA), an advanced form of macular degeneration that blinds roughly 1 million Americans. Unlike ...
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 ...