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Australian opthamologists say they are well on the way to fulfilling the dream of implanting a permanent bionic eye into a patient.
The idea was embraced by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at the 2020 summit at the weekend of April 2008.
But Professor Minas Coroneo from Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital says work on the project is [...]
This study will evaluate the safety of a ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) implant placed in the eye to allow the release of CNTF directly on the retina. The results of this study may lead to a larger investigation of CNTF implants to treat retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a progressive degenerative eye disease that begins with loss [...]
Landmark Gene Therapy Provides Vision to Nearly Blind Young Adults.
Jean Bennett, M.D., Ph.D., lead investigator of the study, with her husband, Albert Maguire, M.D., the study’s lead surgeon.
Three young adults with virtually no vision can now read several lines on an eye chart and see better in dimly lit settings thanks to an innovative gene [...]
