{"id":223739,"date":"2025-10-21T13:03:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/revolutionary-prosthetic-eye-chip-restores-sight-in-medical-first"},"modified":"2025-10-21T13:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:03:44","slug":"revolutionary-prosthetic-eye-chip-restores-sight-in-medical-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/revolutionary-prosthetic-eye-chip-restores-sight-in-medical-first","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionary Prosthetic Eye Chip Restores Sight in Medical First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/revolutionary-prosthetic-eye-chip-restores-sight-in-medical-first.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A tiny chip implanted into the eyes of people suffering vision loss from irreversible age-related macular degeneration has restored central sight in a dazzling first.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called the PRIMA system, tested across 17 European hospitals, and it restored central vision in 26 of 32 patients who used it for 12 months \u2013 many of whom could even read again. The result, developed by a large international team of doctors and scientists over many years, represents a massive breakthrough in treatments for vision loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the first time that any attempt at vision restoration has achieved such results in a large number of patients,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medschool.pitt.edu\/news\/retinal-implant-restores-central-vision-patients-age-related-macular-degeneration\">says ophthamologist Jos\u00e9-Alain Sahel<\/a> of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, co-senior author on a paper describing the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tiny chip implanted into the eyes of people suffering vision loss from irreversible age-related macular degeneration has restored central sight in a dazzling first. It\u2019s called the PRIMA system, tested across 17 European hospitals, and it restored central vision in 26 of 32 patients who used it for 12 months \u2013 many of whom [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1499,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223739","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=223739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}