All Articles Tagged As: eyes
A tiny eye implant that clears scar tissue and delivers progenitor cells designed to replace photoreceptors damaged by disease passes early tests.
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A new study reported in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science found that UV-blocking contact lenses can reduce or eliminate the effects of the sun's harmful UV radiation.
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 | Surgeons from UC Davis Medical Center have demonstrated that artificial muscles can restore the ability of patients with facial paralysis to blink, a development that could benefit the thousands of people each year who no longer are able to close their eyelids due to combat-related injuries, stroke, nerve injury or facial surgery. ...> Full Article |
 | A flexible retinal implant, combined with sophisticated electronics, may provide a higher degree of vision to blind patients with retinal degeneration. The resolution is higher, and improved software highlights the edges of objects, making them more recognizable. ...> Full Article |
Joseph Balboni loves sports. An avid tennis player and golfer, as well as baseball fan, the 46-year-old insurance agent became increasingly frustrated over time as his eyesight dimmed due to keratoconus, a degenerative eye disorder. Unable to return the tennis ball or see the pitch at Red Sox games, he faced the prospect of a corneal transplant to restore his vision and eye comfort.
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A new study shows that implantation of blue light-filtering intraocular lens at the time of cataract surgery increases a nutritional component of the eye, which may afford protection against the development and/or progression of age-related macular degeneration. The study, conducted by leading ophthalmology and vision researchers from the Macular Pigment Research Group at the Waterford Institute of Technology, is published in the October 2009 issue of the high impact journal Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science.
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Two experimental treatments, a retinal prosthesis and fetal tissue transplant, restored some vision to people with blinding eye diseases. The findings, presented at Neuroscience 2009, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news on brain science and health, may lead to new treatments for the blind. Researchers also reported that an engineered protein restored vision in an animal model and identified ways to improve stem cell treatments.
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Two Kansas State University psychology researchers have found that peripheral vision is most important for telling us what type of scene we're looking at. Examining how people take in scene information paves the way for building better robots.
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The first clinical test of an Australian bionic eye is likely to take place within two years and be commercialized within five according to University of Melbourne researchers, thanks to a $50 million funding boost from the Federal Government.
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Visually challenged MIT poet's 'seeing machine' allows sight-impaired to take, see photos
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 | By combining stretchable optoelectronics and biologically inspired design, scientists have created a remarkable imaging device, with a layout based on the human eye. ...> Full Article |
 | "Smart" contact lenses that measure pressure within the eye and dispense medication accordingly could be made possible using a new material ...> Full Article |
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 | Fully implantable visual prosthesis built for the legally blind due to retinal diseases ...> Full Article |
 | Grant gives undergraduates with vision, the chance to change the world. ...> Full Article |
With its expansion to Europe, the only long-term retinal prosthesis study under way worldwide offers hope for treating blindness.
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 | Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs. Off the screen, virtual displays have been proposed for more practical purposes -- visual aids to help vision-impaired people, holographic driving control panels and even as a way to surf the Web on the go. ...> Full Article |
Following ground-breaking research showing that neurons in the human brain respond in an abstract manner to particular individuals or objects, University of Leicester researchers have now discovered that, from the firing of this type of neuron, they can tell what a person is actually seeing.
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The bionic eye is one step closer to reality, thanks in part to important research undertaken at Queensland University of Technology.
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