Optical Implant In The Future

Researchers from MIT are hopeful that their work on an optical implant will be ready within a few years’ date, restoring sight to the blind without involving the supernatural. that bio-electronic implant is roughly the size of a pencil eraser and sits right behind the retina at the back of the eyeball, where images will next be transported by to the brain through a connector that measures no wider than a human hair. The researchers

have already applied for an FDA grant application, hoping to see that implant be a success when used in an animal later that summer. that optical implant is valid only for folks who “were once able to see and have partially intact optic nerve cells” , ruling out those who were blind from birth.

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