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December 1, 2009
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Innovation: Giving Sight to the Blind A retinal implant that uses video to let the blind see.   |
PC Magazine
January 18, 2005
Karen Jones |
Setting Sights on Bionics Optobionics has completed a series of clinical trials involving implanting a 2-milimeter silicon chip inside the eye in patients with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease with no cure. |
Scientific American
March 2007
Alison Snyder |
Sight for Sore Eyes Having generated a cell source and overcome the safety concerns associated with transplanting stem cells, researchers still face possibly their biggest challenge: showing that the transplanted photoreceptors wire up to other neurons that eventually connect to the optic nerves. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2008
Sally Adee |
Researchers Hope to Mime 1000 Neurons With High-Res Artificial Retina The first prosthetic retina that would allow users to recognize faces. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
November 1, 2013
Ben Comer |
Top Medical Innovations for 2014 At the conclusion of the Cleveland Clinic's Medical Innovations Summit each year, 10 innovative technologies are unveiled before the audience, and designated as new and revolutionary tools for the treatment of disease and disability. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
Sandra Upson |
Tongue Vision A fuzzy outlook for an unpalatable technology: BrainPort, designed to help the blind, is telling you that you are facing a round object. It might be a tennis ball right in front of you. But then again, it might be a hot-air balloon a kilometer away. You really can't tell. |
Chemistry World
May 14, 2012
Josh Howgego |
Powering up retinal prosthetics Scientists are reporting a futuristic design for retinal prostheses, which, in principle, would dramatically simplify the surgical procedure required to return sight to the blind. |
Technology Research News
September 10, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Vision chip shines Robot eyes that are comparable to biological eyes are a long way off, but chips that work like retinas are sprouting up in laboratories around the world. An artificial retina that gives what it receives -- light -- is ready to plug into superfast all-optical circuits. |
AskMen.com
Alex Santoso |
5 Tips For Good Vision Health Because in the United States there are 300,000 men who are blind and 1.1 million men with impaired vision, here's a review of five things you can do for good vision health. |
Popular Mechanics
September 27, 2007
Wayne Ma |
Bionic Woman: Hollywood Sci-Fi vs. Reality Experts tell us which, if any, of TV's new Bionic Woman far-out science is (super)humanly possible. |
Food Processing
October 2008 |
New Clues on Cause of AMD Researchers have discovered that a diet rich in antioxidants seems to hold Age-related macular degeneration at bay. |
American Family Physician
April 1, 2004
Gariano & Chang-Hee |
Evaluation and Management of Suspected Retinal Detachment Retinal detachment often is a preventable cause of vision loss. |
Fast Company
Dec 2013/Jan 2014
Paul Watcher |
Making Senses Last December, IBM's VP of innovation predicted that computers would be able to mimic all five of the senses. Recent advances in perception technology actually make that halfdecade timeline look too conservative. |
Chemistry World
October 26, 2011
Kate McAlpine |
Dismissing gatekeepers for enhanced nerve control US researchers have invented a better way to stimulate or block nerve impulses by coating an electrode with a membrane that can control the local concentration of ions. |
Nursing
September 2009
Rachel L. Palmieri |
Wrapping your head around cranial nerves Learn how to evaluate the 12 cranial nerves and spot problems during physical assessment. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2006
Logan Ward |
Your Upgrade Is Ready Evolution has done its best, but there's a limit to our bodies capabilities. Wanna be Superman? Better call the engineers. |
PC Magazine
May 16, 2007
John Brandon |
Future Watch: Eye Implants Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia have successfully inserted microchips behind the retinas of visually impaired felines. |
Scientific American
January 2, 2006
JR Minkel |
T Cells for Brain Cells Some researchers claim that inducing a mild autoimmune reaction could actually protect the central nervous system from a spectrum of neurodegenerative conditions, from glaucoma and spinal cord injury to Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. |
BusinessWeek
March 7, 2005
Michael Arndt |
Rewiring The Body First came pacemakers. Now exotic implants are bringing new hope to victims of epilepsy, paralysis, depression, and other diseases. And some of the biggest names in health care are in a scramble to get into the market. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2005
Willie D. Jones |
Fiber to the Brain Nanotech researchers have devised a method for attaching electrodes to small clusters of brain cells -- or even individual neurons -- using the cardiovascular system as the conduit through which wires are threaded. |
