{"id":35346,"date":"2017-03-15T00:25:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T07:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/new-nano-implant-could-one-day-help-restore-sight"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:44:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:44:59","slug":"new-nano-implant-could-one-day-help-restore-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/new-nano-implant-could-one-day-help-restore-sight","title":{"rendered":"New nano-implant could one day help restore sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-nano-implant-could-one-day-help-restore-sight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego and La Jolla-based startup Nanovision Biosciences Inc. have developed the nanotechnology and wireless electronics for a new type of retinal prosthesis that brings research a step closer to restoring the ability of neurons in the retina to respond to light. The researchers demonstrated this response to light in a rat retina interfacing with a prototype of the device in vitro.<\/p>\n<p>They detail their work in a recent issue of the <i>Journal of Neural Engineering<\/i>. The technology could help tens of millions of people worldwide suffering from neurodegenerative diseases that affect eyesight, including macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa and loss of vision due to diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>Despite tremendous advances in the development of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/retinal+prostheses\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">retinal prostheses<\/a> over the past two decades, the performance of devices currently on the market to help the blind regain functional vision is still severely limited\u2014well under the acuity threshold of 20\/200 that defines legal blindness.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2017-03-nano-implant-day-sight.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2017&#45;03-nano-implant-day-sight.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego and La Jolla-based startup Nanovision Biosciences Inc. have developed the nanotechnology and wireless electronics for a new type of retinal prosthesis that brings research a step closer to restoring the ability of neurons in the retina to respond to light. The researchers demonstrated this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,1496,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-law","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35346","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48523,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35346\/revisions\/48523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}