{"id":171937,"date":"2023-09-13T17:23:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T22:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/oregon-scientists-are-building-a-better-bionic-eye"},"modified":"2023-09-13T17:23:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T22:23:52","slug":"oregon-scientists-are-building-a-better-bionic-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/oregon-scientists-are-building-a-better-bionic-eye","title":{"rendered":"Oregon scientists are building a better bionic eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FBIzCp24Ix0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Serious vision loss affects millions of Americans each year, and biological strategies are still decades away from restoring eyesight lost to macular degeneration. But University of Oregon researchers are looking to create an electronic solution \u2014 a bionic eye \u2014 that could restore people\u2019s sight. They\u2019re tapping into the world of fractal structures that will allow a retinal implant and a human brain to communicate with each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serious vision loss affects millions of Americans each year, and biological strategies are still decades away from restoring eyesight lost to macular degeneration. But University of Oregon researchers are looking to create an electronic solution \u2014 a bionic eye \u2014 that could restore people\u2019s sight. They\u2019re tapping into the world of fractal structures that will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1499,47,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-cyborgs","category-neuroscience","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171937","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}