Publication Date

March 27 2017

Creators/Contributors

Dr. Grazia Pertile (contributor)
Matthew Kitchen (creator)
Dr. Kapil Bharti (contributor)
Gabriel A. Silva (contributor)

Description

In 2013, the FDA approved an artificial retina that could help restore limited vision to people with degenerative eye diseases. But the device relied on a sunglass-mounted external camera and a transmitter that relayed sight information to the retinal implant.

Now researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa and the University of California, San Diego have crafted artificial retinas that can be implanted entirely inside the eye, which offer hope to those with macular degeneration.

Augments

Seeing, Living

Keywords

Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD), Medical, Prosthetic

Marketing Keywords

Italian Institute Of Technology, University Of California At San Diego, Food And Drug Administration (FDA), Sacred Heart Don Calabria, National Eye Institute

Source

http://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/tiny-device-game-changer-people-facing-blindness-n738921