Editor's Note: This article is based on interviews conducted in 2020 and first appeared in Moran's 2020 Focus annual report. ELCHE, Spain—At the age of 58, Berna Gomez has lived the past 16 years of ...

Three decades ago, University of Utah bioengineer Richard A. Normann, PhD, had a radical new idea he hoped might create artificial sight for people who had lost their vision due to disease. If the ...

In a dark room inside Baylor College of Medicine, study participants are asked to look at a blacked out computer screen and point to a white square that appears at intervals on different locations on ...

Millions of Americans struggle with visual impairment, ranging from partial to total loss of sight, which can negatively affect their ability to easily navigate a world designed predominately for ...

The Intracortical Visual Prosthesis (ICVP), an implant that bypasses the retina and optic nerves to connect directly to the brain's visual cortex, has been successfully surgically implanted in the ...

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH—Newly published research details how a team of scientists from the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah and Spain’s Miguel Hernández University successfully created ...

Advances in assistive technology have removed many access barriers for people with vision loss. But it's the development of visual prosthesis that has the potential to offer a whole new way of 'seeing ...

Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology and affiliated faculty in Bioengineering and Neuroscience, UCLA Medical Center & UCLA Brain Research Institute Stimulation of human visual cortex is ...

LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (NASDAQ:EYES) (“Second Sight” or the “Company”), a developer, manufacturer and marketer of implantable visual prosthetics ...