A new soft auditory brainstem implant (ABI) developed by researchers at EPFL may revolutionize hearing restoration for people ...

Researchers use gold nanoparticles to restore vision in mice, offering hope for treating retinal disorders like macular ...

A team of Brown University researchers has identified a promising new approach that may one day help to restore vision in ...

At Science, researchers are developing an implant that sits directly in the eye, under the retina. That’s different than Science’s other planned devices, which will put electrodes in the brain ...

Sadly, for a group reliant on retinal implants from company Second Sight, the company has since stopped producing and supporting the devices that give them a crude form of bionic sight.

Is the device functioning electrically ... activates the visual cortex in a topographically correct way. Retina implants are well tolerated in animal experiments. In blind subjects suffering ...

In a study published in the journal ACS Nano and supported by the National Institutes of Health, the research team showed that nanoparticles injected into the retina can successfully stimulate the ...

A cell-based subretinal implant shows promise in the treatment of geographic atrophy, achieving the unprecedented milestone ...

Gold nanoparticles show promise in helping restore vision in people with retinal disorders like macular degeneration.

In this article, an overview of the currently tested devices is given, which is based on published data. The general concept of all retinal implants and, more or less, all visual prostheses is ...