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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...