Woman Sees For The First Time In Years Thanks To Bionic Eye
WSVN-TV - 7NEWS Miami Ft. Lauderdale News, Weather, Deco More than a decade after losing her eyesight, Carmen Torres can finally see again, thanks to a bionic eye and a first-of-its-kind surgery. "I was happy and I was just laughing like crazy," Torres told reporters at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami on Friday, describing what it felt like to see light after so many years in the dark. "It was very emotional, but I'm very strong. I didn't cry." Torres, 58, began losing her sight at the age of 18 due to retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative genetic disease in which eyesight degrades over time. By the time ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 1, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Woman Sees For The First Time In Years Thanks To Bionic Eye
WSVN-TV - 7NEWS Miami Ft. Lauderdale News, Weather, Deco
More than a decade after losing her eyesight, Carmen Torres can finally see again, thanks to a bionic eye and a first-of-its-kind surgery.
"I was happy and I was just laughing like crazy," Torres told reporters at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami on Friday, describing what it felt like to see light after so many years in the dark. "It was very emotional, but I'm very strong. I didn't cry."
Torres, 58, began losing her sight at the age of 18 due to retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative genetic disease in which eyesight degrades over time. By the time ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - August 1, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Woman Sees For The First Time In Years Thanks To Bionic Eye
WSVN-TV - 7NEWS Miami Ft. Lauderdale News, Weather, Deco
More than a decade after losing her eyesight, Carmen Torres can finally see again, thanks to a bionic eye and a first-of-its-kind surgery.
"I was happy and I was just laughing like crazy," Torres told reporters at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami on Friday, describing what it felt like to see light after so many years in the dark. "It was very emotional, but I'm very strong. I didn't cry."
Torres, 58, began losing her sight at the age of 18 due to retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative genetic disease in which eyesight degrades over time. By the time ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 1, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
In blinding eye disease, trash-collecting cells go awry, accelerate damage
NIH research points to microglia as potential therapeutic target in retinitis pigmentosa. (Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases)
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - July 2, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: news
In Blinding Eye Disease, Trash-Collecting Cells go Awry, Accelerate Damage
Spider-like cells inside the brain, spinal cord and eye hunt for invaders, capturing and then devouring them. These cells, called microglia, often play a beneficial role by helping to clear trash and protect the central nervous system against infection. But a new study by researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI) shows that they also accelerate damage wrought by blinding eye disorders, such as retinitis pigmentosa. NEI is part of the National Institutes of Health.
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Source: News from NEI - June 30, 2015 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Jason Source Type: news
Second Sight touts 3-year Argus II retinal prosthesis data
Second Sight Medical (NSDQ:EYES) said data from a 3-year study of its Argus II retinal prosthesis system show positive results in previously blind patients.
The study, published in Ophthalmology yesterday, examined 30 patients implanted with the Argus II, designed to restore partial vision by stimulating viable retinal cells in patients with severe to profound retinitis pigmentosa, the Sylmar, Calif.-based company said.
At 3 years, 29 patients remain implanted with the system and 89% of subjects performed better with the system in visual function tasks, the study reports.
Eighty percent of patients benefited from the syst...
Source: Mass Device - June 24, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Clinical Trials Implants Optical/Ophthalmic Second Sight Medical Products Inc. Source Type: news
Bionic eye clinical trial results show long-term safety, efficacy vision-restoring implant
The three-year clinical trial results of the retinal implant popularly known as the 'bionic eye,' have proven the long-term efficacy, safety and reliability of the device that restores vision in those blinded by a rare, degenerative eye disease. The findings show that the Argus II significantly improves visual function and quality of life for people blinded by retinitis pigmentosa. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - June 23, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Argus II Bionic Eye Clinical Trial Results
Results of 3 year clinical trial study of retinal implant known as the Argus II bionic eye for people blinded by retinitis pigmentosa (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - June 23, 2015 Category: Disability Tags: Clinical Trials Source Type: news
New tool identifies novel compound targeting causes of type 2 diabetes
A new drug screening technology has identified a new potential anti-diabetes compound -- and a powerful way to quickly test whether other molecules can have a positive effect on a critical molecular pathway believed to be central to diseases ranging from diabetes to retinitis pigmentosa, cystic fibrosis, Huntington's disease, and Alzheimer's. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - June 17, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Study: Retina Implant’s chip restores vision in blind patients
Retina Implant AG, which is developing subretinal implants for patients blinded by retinitis pigmentosa, said a new study published in Vision Research shows positive results in patients treated with its Alpha IMS subretinal microchip. More than 86% of patients implanted with the device experienced improved ability to detect light and identify specific light sources, the […]
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Source: Mass Device - June 1, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Business/Financial News Optical/Ophthalmic Clinical Trials Source Type: news
Researcher awarded $4.9 million grant from California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) Shaomei Wang, MD, PhD, a research scientist in the Eye Program at the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute, received a $4.9 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to advance her work in retinitis pigmentosa, a type of degenerative retinal disease. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 21, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Gene editing technique could prevent inherited diseases
ConclusionThis early research has developed a new technique to reduce the amount of mutation-carrying DNA within mitochondria. The hope is that this technique might be used in the eggs of women carrying disease-causing mitochondrial mutations.The government has recently given the go ahead for a technique that allows a woman who carries such a disease from passing it on to her child – making the UK the first country to do so. This technique has raised some ethical and safety concerns, as it places the woman’s chromosomes into a donor egg with healthy mitochondria. This means that once this egg is fertilised it contains...
Source: NHS News Feed - April 24, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Genetics/stem cells Pregnancy/child Source Type: news
Bionic Eye Patient "Thrilled" to Reconnect with Visual World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCCn9godAjg Allen Zderad thought darkness had invaded his world to stay. He’s among the 1-in-4,000 people who are born with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye condition. There is no effective treatment or cure. While not all patients will lose their sight entirely, Mayo Clinic researcher and ophthalmologist Raymond Iezzi Jr., M.D. says, a “bionic eye” may [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - April 1, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Wearable Device Helps Visually Impaired Avoid Collision
People who have lost some of their peripheral vision, such as those with retinitis pigmentosa, glaucoma, or brain injury that causes half visual field loss, often face mobility challenges and increased likelihood of falls and collisions. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - March 31, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news
How is the membrane protein folded?
(Hiroshima University) A key factor in the biosynthesis and stable expression of multi-pass transmembrane proteins was discovered at Hiroshima University, Japan. The factor works especially for multi-pass membrane proteins, in the integration of polypeptides into the membrane and/or protein folding. Loss of this factor is thought to cause retinal degeneration. So in the future, researchers hope their results will contribute to the development of next-generation medical care in the treatment of retinitis pigmentosa. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - March 2, 2015 Category: Biology Source Type: news
