A bionic eye that could give vision to blind people is about to be implanted in the first patients. Scientists say an artificial retina they have developed could help thousands of people who have ...

A nine-year-old girl born with one eye who refused to even leave the house after bullies called her ‘ugly’ has had her life transformed thanks to a state of the art bionic replacement.

Surgeon Gabriel Weston visits the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford to follow an NHS funded trial testing a ground-breaking new treatment for patients who have lost ...

It's taken until this year, 2014, for patients to receive the first FDA-approved bionic eyes. This breakthrough comes via Second Sight, a California company whose Argus II technology revolves ...

Bionic eyes could make glasses a thing of the past, scientists say. They are developing a system that will let patients correct faulty eyesight simply by tapping the side of their head.

Second Sight stopped making its Argus II bionic eyes several years ago to focus on a brain implant instead. According to IEEE Spectrum, which broke the story, it is now hoping to merge with a ...

has raised US$18 million to progress the development of its bionic eye implant. The company designs devices to combat retinitis pigmentosa (RP) - an inherited rare eye condition that causes the ...

Researchers from Monash University in Australia have developed the world’s first bionic eye. This offers hope to millions of ...

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Watch the trailer for 'Light Darkness Light,' a documentary about a man who gets an experiment bionic eye implant.