Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . According to Stanga, an electrode array, part of the Bionic Eye System from Bionic Vision Technologies, is ...

Retinitis pigmentosa is an inherited retinal disease which affects about two million people worldwide and is one of the leading causes of vision loss in working-age people. The bionic eye comprises an ...

After a lot of theorizing, postulating, and non-human trials, it looks like bionic eye implants are finally hitting the market -- first in Europe, and hopefully soon in the US. These implants can ...

A team of Engineers from Stanford, and Glasgow, Scotland, have made some incredible advances on their earlier designs for a photovoltaic bionic eye. Their new paper, published in Nature Communications ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . According to Wykoff, the device has demonstrated long-term safety and efficacy in four patients. He also ...

ANN ARBOR, MI -- A degenerative eye disease slowly robbed Roger Pontz of his vision. Diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa as a teenager, Pontz has been almost completely blind for years. Now, thanks to ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the approval of a new medical device intended to treat a rare disease population through the use of a retinal implant. The device, Second Sight ...

A receiver under the eye surface passes the signals back to the chip A bionic eye implant that could help restore the sight of millions of blind people could be available to patients within two years.