Bionic Eye Restores Michigan Man's Eyesight

[longknife]

Discover had an article about the now-routine cochlear implant to restore hearing. Now science is restoring sight. What comes next? Perhaps restoring …

Read article @ Michigan Man Among 1st in U.S. To Get ?Bionic Eye? - TIME

And another source said that gene therapy was restoring nerve receptors to also help people regain hearing. Amazing! And here's another story on the subject @ Hearing quality restored with bionic ear technology used for gene therapy: Re-growing auditory nerves -- ScienceDaily

I've already had lens replacement surgery that restored my vision after 50 years of wearing glasses.

 

[whitehall]

Rush Limbaugh lost his hearing a couple of years ago and he underwent a coclear (spelling?) implant in one ear. In order to construct the implant they have to remove most of the inner ear and the thinking was to do it in one ear because medical science might be able to restore the hearing in the other ear in the future if it was left intact.

 

[waltky]

"I see", said the blind man...

... "Yer a liar" said the deaf mute.

 

[waltky]

One of the "finest achievements" in regenerative medicine...

'Stunning' operation regenerates eye lens
Wed, 09 Mar 2016 - A pioneering procedure to heal the eye has been described as one of the "finest achievements" in regenerative medicine.

A pioneering procedure to regenerate the eye has successfully treated children with cataracts in China. More than half of all cases of blindness are caused by cataracts - the clouding of the eye's lens. An implanted lens is normally needed to restore sight, but the operation described in Nature activated stem cells in the eye to grow a new one. Experts describe the breakthrough as one of the finest achievements in regenerative medicine. The lens sits just behind the pupil and focuses light on to the retina.

Dat's Granny keepin' an eye on ya​

About 20 million people are blind because of cataracts, which become more common with age - although some children are born with them. Conventional treatment uses ultrasound to soften and break up the lens, which is then flushed out. An artificial intraocular lens must then be implanted back into the eye, but this can result in complications, particularly in children. The technique developed by scientists at the Sun Yat-sen University and the University of California, San Diego removes the cloudy cataract from inside the lens via a tiny incision.

Crucially it leaves the outer surface - called the lens capsule - intact. This structure is lined with lens epithelial stem cells, which normally repair damage. The scientists hoped that preserving them would regenerate the lens. The team reported that tests on rabbits and monkeys were successful, so the approach was trialled in 12 children. Within eight months the regenerated lens was back to the same size as normal.

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[Dekster]

I think they are working on trying to come up with a way for people to grow new teeth via stem cells.

 

[Likkmee]

Discover had an article about the now-routine cochlear implant to restore hearing. Now science is restoring sight. What comes next? Perhaps restoring …

Read article @ Michigan Man Among 1st in U.S. To Get ?Bionic Eye? - TIME

And another source said that gene therapy was restoring nerve receptors to also help people regain hearing. Amazing! And here's another story on the subject @ Hearing quality restored with bionic ear technology used for gene therapy: Re-growing auditory nerves -- ScienceDaily

I've already had lens replacement surgery that restored my vision after 50 years of wearing glasses.

Did your Socialist medical coverage take care of that or did you have to break capitalist ?