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A nine-year-old girl born with one eye who refused to even leave the house after bullies called her ‘ugly’ has had her life transformed thanks to a state of the art bionic replacement.

A bionic eye that could give vision to blind people is about to be implanted in the first patients. Scientists say an artificial retina they have developed could help thousands of people who have ...

It's taken until this year, 2014, for patients to receive the first FDA-approved bionic eyes. This breakthrough ... to begin losing her sight as a young woman, and how now, decades later, she's ...

Bionic eyes could make glasses a thing of the past ... The 'smart eye' could focus in and out like a camera lens, freeing men and women from the need to wear spectacles or contact lenses.

A new study at the University of Sydney has showcased promising results for a new bionic eye. A team of biomedical students at the university developed the device. After three months of studying ...

I have central vision now which I haven’t had for eight years.” “Mr. Flynn’s progress is truly remarkable,” Paulo Stanga, the ophthalmologist and vitreoretinal surgeon at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital ...

Surgeon Gabriel Weston visits the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford to follow an NHS funded trial testing a ground-breaking new treatment for patients who have lost ...

The bionic eye works by converting images from a tiny camera mounted on a pair of glasses into a grid of 16 electrical signals that transmit directly to the nerve endings in the retina.