{"id":75865,"date":"2018-02-10T05:03:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T13:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/second-sight-touts-1st-in-human-orion-cortical-implant"},"modified":"2018-02-10T05:03:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T13:03:01","slug":"second-sight-touts-1st-in-human-orion-cortical-implant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/second-sight-touts-1st-in-human-orion-cortical-implant","title":{"rendered":"Second Sight touts 1st-in-human Orion cortical implant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/second-sight-touts-1st-in-human-orion-cortical-implant2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massdevice.com\/tag\/second-sight-medical\/\">Second Sight Medical<\/a> (NSDQ: <a title=\"Second Sight Medical stock ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AEYES&ei=MxNuVLHyKIvv8wbj3YCYCw\">EYES<\/a>) today announced the first trial implantation of its Orion cortical visual prosthesis system and updated on implantations of its Argus device and enrollment in an upcoming study.<\/p>\n<p>The first implantation procedure was performed late last month by Dr. Nader Pouratian at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, the Sylmar, Calif.-based company said, as part of an FDA-cleared feasibility trial it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.massdevice.com\/second-sight-wins-full-fda-clearance-orion-cortical-prosthesis-feasibility-trial\/\">won approval to launch last November<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Orion cortical visual prosthesis system is designed to convert images captured by a miniature video camera, mounted on a patient\u2019s glasses, into a series of electrical pulses which are transmitted wirelessly to an array of electrodes on the surface of the individual\u2019s visual cortex.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.massdevice.com\/second-sight-touts-1st-human-orion-cortical-implant\/\">https:\/\/www.massdevice.com\/second-sight-touts-1st-human-orion-cortical-implant\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Sight Medical (NSDQ: EYES) today announced the first trial implantation of its Orion cortical visual prosthesis system and updated on implantations of its Argus device and enrollment in an upcoming study. The first implantation procedure was performed late last month by Dr. Nader Pouratian at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, the Sylmar, Calif.-based [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75865","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\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}