vision
Bionic contact lens becomes reality
Posted in Medicine on 1st Jun, 2015
by Alex Muller
The new contact lens allows the user to zoom in and out in literally a wink.
Newly identified protein may hold key to preventing diabetes-induced blindness
Posted in Medicine on 26th May, 2015
by Alex Muller
Diabetic retinopathy is one of the nasty effects diabetes can have, leading to permanent loss of vision.
Some blind people can train themselves to use echolocation
Posted in Science on 26th May, 2015
by Alex Muller
Some blind people have learned to use echolocation to tell the size, density, and texture of objects around them.
Bionic Lenses that deliver eyesight three times better than 20/20 vision
Posted in Medicine on 19th May, 2015
by Alex Muller
Webb says people who have the specialized lenses surgically inserted would never get cataracts because their natural lenses, which decay over time, would have been replaced.
The Ebola virus can 'live on in eyes of survivors'
Posted in Medicine on 8th May, 2015
by Alex Muller
Ebola can persist in the eye and lead to further damage.