In the latest episode of The Retina TL;DR with Dr. Weng, host Christina Y. Weng, MD, MBA, FASRS, talks with Dr. Brodie about ...

Regardless of efforts taken to slow disease progression, in the absence of a curative option to either entirely halt progression or repair the damage to the retina, patients with geographic atrophy ...

A woman who received a hospital audiology department’s five hundredth cochlear implant said she felt like she’d been plunged “into a video game” when it was activated. Nicole Milton, 47, underwent an ...

Neural implants have the potential to restore lost sensory function by electrically evoking the complex naturalistic activity patterns of neural populations. However, it can be difficult to predict ...

For years, they had been losing their central vision—what allows people to see letters, faces, and details clearly. The light-receiving cells in their eyes had been deteriorating, gradually blurring ...

Our collaborative team includes engineers, clinicians, and scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Intelligent Systems Center (ISC), and across APL. Our researchers are developing novel interfaces ...

The most promising results in restoration of sight to patients blinded by age-related macular degeneration (AMD) to date have been achieved by replacing the missing photoreceptors with photovoltaic ...

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are no longer a thing of science fiction. The technology is already available to some patients to treat conditions like epilepsy and blindness. Soon, projects like ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. More than 350 blind people around the world who received retinal ...

Second Sight's website has stories from patients who have had the implant Hundreds of people who had retinal implants to improve their sight face an uncertain future as the technology they rely on is ...