Left: Simulation of a patient's vision with macular degeneration. Right: Simulation of the patient’s vision enhanced with the PRIMA eye prosthesis. A tiny wireless chip implanted in the back of the ...

Every year, thousands of people lose an eye to trauma, to disease, or to a painful condition that cannot be corrected without losing the organ. Others are born without one. For most of them, the path ...

A tiny wireless chip implanted in the back of the eye and a pair of high-tech glasses have partially restored vision to people with an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration. In a clinical ...

A new final guidance document published by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends to sponsors methods of conducting clinical research in support of investigational medical device ...

A new prosthesis for the retina weaved with nanowires partially restored vision in blind mice and allowed detection of near-infrared light in macaques, according to a new study. The new technology's ...

Vision loss has long been treated as a one-way street, a devastating endpoint rather than a problem the brain might quietly work to solve. A wave of research is now overturning that assumption, ...

Groundbreaking technology allows patients to read and write again ...