Eye Prosthesis Helps Blind Mice See Again From: Medpage Today By: Crystal Phend A device implanted in the eye to take over for damaged retinas - encoding what it "sees" into data the brain can read - restored near-normal vision to blind mice, researchers found. Read the entire article at: http://www.medpagetoday.com/Ophthalmology/GeneralOphthalmology/34207 Links: A prosthetic eye to treat blindness (TED Talk video 10:05) http://www.ted.com/talks/sheila_nirenberg_a_prosthetic_eye_to_treat_blindness.html Sheila Nirenberg, PhD http://physiology.med.cornell.edu/faculty/profile.php?id=nirenberg http://www.ted.com/speakers/sheila_nirenberg.html Submitted by Drew Nelson --- Artificial Retine Lets Blind Mice See From: Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry - 09/2012 - page 20 Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have developed an artificial retina that allows mice to track moving images and discern facial features. It uses an encoder to convert images to electrical impulses, which a miniature projector converts to light. Light-sensitive proteins introduced through gene therapy then transmit the code to the brain. The researchers say that the artifical retina restores the animal's vision to normal or near normal. Their next step is to model the prosthetic for human use. Link: An Artificial Retina with the Capacity to Restore Normal Vision http://weill.cornell.edu/news/releases/wcmc/wcmc_2012/08_13_12.shtml