Researchers Hope to Mime 1000 Neurons with High-Res Artificial Retina From: IEEE Spectrum Online - 12/2008 By: Sally Adee Researchers from three major California universities are working on an artificial retina that could give limited sight to people with degenerative diseases of the retina, such as macular degeneration. Such a prosthesis is a more realistic future treatment than stem-cell therapy, gene therapy, or eye transplants, its developers say. The Californian researchers have been treating people using a 60-pixel retina in a clinical trial for two years. But they are now gunning for a system with a resolution of 1000 pixels. And in contrast with systems in trials today, the researchers hope to develop a system that would be completely sealed into the eye, without any external components. Read the entire article at: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/dec08/7102 Links: James Weiland http://www.uscbmes.com/faculty_staff_detail.asp?ID=6