{"id":108614,"date":"2020-06-13T11:23:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T18:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/new-bionic-eye-might-see-better-than-we-do"},"modified":"2020-06-13T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T18:23:18","slug":"new-bionic-eye-might-see-better-than-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/new-bionic-eye-might-see-better-than-we-do","title":{"rendered":"New Bionic Eye Might See Better Than We Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-bionic-eye-might-see-better-than-we-do2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ability to restore sight to the blind is one of the most profound acts of healing medicine can achieve, in terms of the impact on the affected patient\u2019s life \u2014 and one of the most difficult for modern medicine to achieve. We can restore vision in a limited number of scenarios and there are some early bionic eyes on the market that can restore limited vision in very specific scenarios. Researchers may have taken a dramatic step towards changing that in the future, with the results of a new experiment to design a bionic retina.<\/p>\n<p>The research team in question has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-020-2285-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published a paper in <em>Nature<\/em><\/a> detailing the construction of a hemispherical retina built out of high-density nanowires. The spherical shape of the retina has historically been a major challenge for biomimetic devices.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/EyeComparison.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-bionic-eye-might-see-better-than-we-do3.jpg\" alt=\"EyeComparison\" width=\"640\" height=\"398\"   ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to restore sight to the blind is one of the most profound acts of healing medicine can achieve, in terms of the impact on the affected patient\u2019s life \u2014 and one of the most difficult for modern medicine to achieve. We can restore vision in a limited number of scenarios and there are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,4,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-nanotechnology","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}