Doctors are calling an artificial retina that partially restores eyesight a breakthrough for the blind. Dean Lloyd, of California, joined a clinical trial for the artificial retina in hopes of curing ...

FARMINGTON, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LambdaVision, an innovative biotech company developing a protein-based artificial retina to help patients regain sight lost to retinal degenerative diseases, ...

Chinese researchers have reportedly made a breakthrough in artificial vision technology using a rare mineral called tellurium. This development could one day help restore sight to the blind, perhaps ...

May 8 -- Debbie Bennett's retinas stopped working 23 years ago, and suddenly, her sight abandoned her. "I was reading a book. And all of a sudden, my vision just went," Bennett told ABCNEWS' Science ...

Six million people in the United States and 25 million worldwide are blind because one layer of cells on their retinas no longer work. Researchers, including those at North Carolina State University, ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Attempts to engineer artificial retinas with the visual capabilities of the human eye have faced enduring challenges. Though promising in theory, replicated the elaborate ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists are testing artificial retinas that they hope can restore partial sight to people who’ve lost their vision to the most common causes of blindness. Retinitis pigmentosa, which ...

CHICAGO, IL–In an effort to speed the design and development of an artificial retina that could potentially help millions of people blinded by retinal diseases, Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham ...

R&D magazine has awarded an R&D 100 Award to the Artificial Retina Project, recognizing it as one of the most innovative ideas of the year. Wentai Liu, professor of electrical engineering at the Jack ...

FARMINGTON, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LambdaVision, an innovative biotech developing a treatment to help patients regain sight, will launch their artificial retina technology with engineering partner ...

November 25, 2002—Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham toured the University of Southern California's ophthalmology laboratories at the Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, and heard from the national ...

The mammalian retina is a complex system consisting out of cones (for color) and rods (for peripheral monochrome) that provide the raw image data which is then processed into successive layers of ...