Bionic eye 'blindness cure hope' - Talk Britain

Hekna · #1 (**permalink**) 21-04-2008, 21:14

BBC NEWS | Health | Bionic eye 'blindness cure hope'

A 'bionic eye' may hold the key to returning sight to people left blind by a hereditary disease, experts believe.
A team at London's Moorfields Eye Hospital have carried out the treatment on the UK's first patients as part of a clinical study into the therapy.
The artificial eye, connected to a camera on a pair of glasses, has been developed by US firm Second Sight.
It said the technique may be able to restore a basic level of vision, but experts warned it was still early days.

The trial aims to help people who have been made blind through retinitis pigmentosa, a group of inherited eye diseases that affects the retina...

Sweetpea · #2 (**permalink**) 21-04-2008, 21:16

Good news. Lets hope it comes to reality.

poppy · #3 (**permalink**) 21-04-2008, 23:29

This sounds amazing

#4 (**permalink**) 22-04-2008, 05:56

Can't see it myself.

Sweetpea · #5 (**permalink**) 22-04-2008, 14:57

poppy · #6 (**permalink**) 22-04-2008, 19:21