USC researchers are testing a stem cell retinal implant for advanced dry macular degeneration, aiming to replace damaged ...

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 ...

A tiny wireless chip placed at the back of the eye is giving people with severe vision loss something they had been told they ...

Scientists at USC are launching a new trial to test a tiny stem cell implant that could restore vision in people with ...

USC and Second Sight Medical Products Inc., the developer of retinal prostheses for treating blindness, are expanding the clinical trial of an advanced retinal prosthesis into Europe. The announcement ...

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 ...

The Argus II, a “bionic eye”, is intended to provide electrical stimulation of the retina to elicit visual perception in blind subjects with severe to profound retinitis pigmentosa, according to the ...

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 ...

A major therapeutic challenge, the retinal prostheses that have been under development during the past ten years can enable some blind subjects to perceive light signals, but the image thus restored ...