For decades, treatments for macular degeneration have focused on slowing, not restoring vision loss. A new retinal implant is ...

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

"Without the glasses you can't see a thing, put the glasses on you can suddenly see. You get that wow factor every time you do it." Philip Booth, 60, has had bionic eyes for the last three and a half ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - 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 ...

Progressively losing your vision as you get older sucks, thankfully researchers are working on a solution that could ...

Developed by California-based biotech company Science Corporation, the ultra-thin PRIMA implant measures just two millimeters square and is placed beneath the retina in a brief surgical ...

A new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine describes the results of a clinical trial pitting an ocular ...

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 ...

Talk about bionic eyes and most people hearken back to the Bionic Man or other sci-fi shows. Engineers at the University of Washington, however, say it’s not all movie magic fantasy. University ...

Providing us with a delightful glimpse of the future of humanity and bionic implants, Second Sight -- the developer of the first bionic eye to receive FDA approval in the US -- is currently working on ...

LOS ANGELES — Robert Greenberg got tired of hearing from senior engineers that it wasn’t possible to build his product idea: a bionic eye that gives sight to the blind. “A lot of the folks straight ...

Biotechnology has become one of the fastest-growing areas of scientific research in the past 20 years, with new devices quickly going into clinical trials. We’ve seen successful bionic arms and legs, ...