A prosthetic eye to treat blindness
9:48 · Sheila Nirenberg · 2011-12-20
At TEDMED, Sheila Nirenberg shows a bold way to create sight in people with certain kinds of blindness: by hooking into the optic nerve and sending signals from a camera direct to the brain.
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- medical research
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- prosthetics
- disability
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