Image courtesy of Science Corp.] Science Corporation announced today that it closed an oversubscribed $230 million Series C financing round. Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, ...

Argus II is a novel healthcare technology that restores vision in RP patients. Improvements in visual acuity are expected to lead to improvements in patient self-confidence, decreasing their ...

For decades, treatments for macular degeneration have focused on slowing, not restoring vision loss. A new retinal implant is flipping that script, turning patients with geographic atrophy into ...

Science Corp secures $230M funding to accelerate its brain-computer interface technology and retinal implant designed to restore vision ...

A tiny wireless implant placed under the retina helped many people with advanced age related macular degeneration regain useful central vision in a clinical trial. After one year, most participants ...

A clinical trial led by Stanford University School of Medicine has demonstrated that a wireless retinal prosthesis can help restore vision lost to advanced macular degeneration. The results, published ...

For the first time, researchers have restored some vision to people with a common type of eye disease by using a prosthetic retinal implant. If approved for broader use in the future, the treatment ...

A new wireless eye implant restored reading vision in some blind adults, allowing many patients to recognize letters and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. José-Alain Sahel, M.D., holding the PRIMA implant. (CREDIT: UPMC) A small wireless chip and a pair of smart glasses are offering ...

The Argus II, a “bionic eye”, is intended to provide electrical stimulation of the retina to elicit visual perception in blind subjects with severe to profound retinitis pigmentosa, according to the ...

A new prosthesis for the retina weaved with nanowires partially restored vision in blind mice and allowed detection of near-infrared light in macaques, according to a new study. The new technology's ...