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.