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fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

Science Corp raises $230M as it races to bring its brain implant to market | TechCrunch

Science Corporation raised $230 million for PRIMA, a rice-grain-sized brain-computer interface chip that restores vision to macular degeneration patients, with 80% of trial participants achieving meaningful visual improvement and reading ability.
fromBig Think
2 weeks ago

The brain after blindness: How newly-sighted people build a visual world

If we told them to look at the face, they could usually manage it. But they were mostly looking at the hands. The Prakash children eventually learn to look at faces when spoken to - usually a few months after their surgeries. Their experiences reveal that seeing doesn't come naturally the moment a person is cured of blindness. Newly-sighted people must learn to see.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Brain implant restores vision to a man blinded by an optic nerve injury

A 4x4 mm microneedle implant in the visual cortex restored partial vision in a NAION patient, enabling light perception, movement detection, object identification, and reading large characters.
Medicine
fromFortune
1 month ago

As billionaires chase immortality, this startup cofounded by a Harvard genetics professor gets FDA approval for the first partial de-aging human trial | Fortune

Life Biosciences won FDA approval for a Phase 1 trial testing partial epigenetic reprogramming gene therapy to restore vision in glaucoma and NAION patients.
Medicine
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Revolutionary eye injection saved my sight, says first-ever patient

A pioneering low-cost treatment at Moorfields restored sight and prevented blindness in most pilot-study patients with hypotony.
fromSFGATE
4 months ago

These patients got their vision back, thanks to new Stanford tech

With new wireless chips implanted behind their eyes and high-tech glasses, around 30 people with advanced age-related macular degeneration - a common eye disease - have regained their ability to read again. The device is the first of its kind to bring back functional sight, albeit blurry and only black and white, to patients with this type of incurable vision loss.
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fromTESLARATI
6 months ago

Elon Musk: Neuralink could restore partial vision to the blind next year

Neuralink aims to restore limited sight to completely blind patients as early as 2026 using its Blindsight brain-computer interface targeting the visual cortex.
OMG science
fromMail Online
8 months ago

Man blinded by fireworks grows new eye in revolutionary procedure

A revolutionary stem cell transplant has restored vision to a man blinded by a fireworks accident, showcasing new hope for similar injuries.
Wearables
fromFuturism
10 months ago

Doctors Say Injecting Gold Into Eyeballs Could Restore Lost Vision

Gold nanoparticles may restore vision in retinal damage without surgery or genetic modifications.
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fromwww.standard.co.uk
11 months ago

Specialist London surgeons save sight of Bangladeshi students injured in protests

Surgeons from Moorfields Eye Hospital in London successfully restored sight to over 20 Bangladeshi students blinded by gunfire during protests.
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