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#FDA Approves First Retinal implant An article by Scientific American. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Thursday approved the first retinal implant for use in the United states. The FDA s green light for Second sight s Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System gives hope to those blinded

by a rare genetic eye condition called advanced retinitis pigmentosa, which damages the light-sensitive cells that line the retina.

The Argus II is not the only retinal implant under development. Retina Implant AG takes a slightly different approach by making a prosthetic inserted beneath a portion of the retina.

Stanford university researchers are in the early stages of developing self-powered retinal implants where each pixel in the device is fitted with silicon photodiodes.

if you had a retinal implant.'"'"Fine said the paper aims to provide information about the quality of vision people can expect

or retinal implants for the blind, there is already neural damage, he says. Housley group is working with Cochlear

He is using a retinal implant which converts video images from a miniature video camera worn on his glasses.

He can now make out the direction of white lines on a computer screen using the retinal implant. Mr Flynn said he was delighted"with the implant

Surgeons will now insert the Argus II retinal implant into more patients over the coming months to demonstrate that it can work for a variety of patients.

and his brain now needs to get use to interpreting it. he Argus II retinal implant was used previously on 130 patients with the rare eye disease retinitis pigmentosa.

efficacy vision-restoring implant The three-year clinical trial results of the retinal implant popularly known as the"bionic eye,

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