How to Improve Bionic Vision

“Curing blindness remains a major challenge in medicine,” writes Physics World in an article which hones in recent research from German scientists into retinal stimulation.

“Degenerative diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration are characterized by dysfunctional photoreceptors, which lead to the impairment of light detection in the retina. For patients with blindness caused by such diseases, one approach to restoring vision is a retinal prosthetic implant.”

Check out the research article published in the Journal of Neural Engineering, and read the full Physics World summary including a video abstract by researchers Daniel Rathbun and Eberhart Zrenner.