Roughly 100,000 Americans are affected by retinitis pigementosa (RP), a degenerative retinal disease that often results in complete blindness in both eyes. There is no effective treatment for this ...

"Without the glasses you can't see a thing, put the glasses on you can suddenly see. You get that wow factor every time you do it." Philip Booth, 60, has had bionic eyes for the last three and a half ...

Providing us with a delightful glimpse of the future of humanity and bionic implants, Second Sight -- the developer of the first bionic eye to receive FDA approval in the US -- is currently working on ...

In February, the FDA approved market sales for artificial retina technology in the form of a bionic eye that will be used to treat patients with late stage retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Yesterday, ...

“We can rebuild him…” is part of the opening dialogue of the 1970s hit TV series ‘ The Six Million Dollar Man‘. Since this science fiction adventure was first broadcast, considerable progress has been ...

Biotechnology has become one of the fastest-growing areas of scientific research in the past 20 years, with new devices quickly going into clinical trials. We’ve seen successful bionic arms and legs, ...

image: Researchers developed an experimentally validated advanced computer model that reproduces the shapes and positions of millions of nerve cells in the eye, as well as the physical and networking ...

Existing bionic eye systems have a chip fitted to a person's retina, which connects wirelessly to a camera fitted to glasses Once upon a time there were some unusual Australian sheep, with ...