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fromenglish.elpais.com
17 hours ago

Brain implant restores vision to a man blinded by an optic nerve injury

A 4x4 mm microneedle implant in the visual cortex restored partial vision in a NAION patient, enabling light perception, movement detection, object identification, and reading large characters.
Medicine
fromFortune
4 days ago

As billionaires chase immortality, this startup cofounded by a Harvard genetics professor gets FDA approval for the first partial de-aging human trial | Fortune

Life Biosciences won FDA approval for a Phase 1 trial testing partial epigenetic reprogramming gene therapy to restore vision in glaucoma and NAION patients.
Medicine
fromwww.bbc.com
3 weeks ago

Revolutionary eye injection saved my sight, says first-ever patient

A pioneering low-cost treatment at Moorfields restored sight and prevented blindness in most pilot-study patients with hypotony.
fromSFGATE
3 months ago

These patients got their vision back, thanks to new Stanford tech

With new wireless chips implanted behind their eyes and high-tech glasses, around 30 people with advanced age-related macular degeneration - a common eye disease - have regained their ability to read again. The device is the first of its kind to bring back functional sight, albeit blurry and only black and white, to patients with this type of incurable vision loss.
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fromTESLARATI
4 months ago

Elon Musk: Neuralink could restore partial vision to the blind next year

Neuralink aims to restore limited sight to completely blind patients as early as 2026 using its Blindsight brain-computer interface targeting the visual cortex.
OMG science
fromMail Online
7 months ago

Man blinded by fireworks grows new eye in revolutionary procedure

A revolutionary stem cell transplant has restored vision to a man blinded by a fireworks accident, showcasing new hope for similar injuries.
Wearables
fromFuturism
9 months ago

Doctors Say Injecting Gold Into Eyeballs Could Restore Lost Vision

Gold nanoparticles may restore vision in retinal damage without surgery or genetic modifications.
fromwww.standard.co.uk
9 months ago

Specialist London surgeons save sight of Bangladeshi students injured in protests

Mr Muqit remarked, 'It's such a privilege to be able to restore sight to people who have lived with sight loss for months.'
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