{"id":163242,"date":"2023-05-02T17:26:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T22:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/this-bionic-eye-cures-diseases-that-cause-blindness"},"modified":"2023-05-02T17:26:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T22:26:52","slug":"this-bionic-eye-cures-diseases-that-cause-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/this-bionic-eye-cures-diseases-that-cause-blindness","title":{"rendered":"This bionic eye cures diseases that cause blindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-bionic-eye-cures-diseases-that-cause-blindness2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It works for retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD).<\/p>\n<p>Science Corp has conceived of a new bionic eye that targets and cures two diseases that cause blindness. \u201cToday we\u2019re excited to take the covers off of our first flagship product development program: the Science Eye, a visual prosthesis targeted at retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), two forms of serious blindness presently without good options for patients,\u201d said the firm in a post from November 2022.<\/p>\n<p>How does it work? By targeting the functioning of the diseases.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Peshkova\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we\u2019re excited to take the covers off of our first flagship product development program: the Science Eye, a visual prosthesis targeted at retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), two forms of serious blindness presently without good options for patients,\u201d said the firm in a post from November 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It works for retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Science Corp has conceived of a new bionic eye that targets and cures two diseases that cause blindness. \u201cToday we\u2019re excited to take the covers off of our first flagship product development program: the Science Eye, a visual prosthesis targeted at retinitis pigmentosa [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,269,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-life-extension","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163242","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}