Artificial retinas help bring life back into focus

You might think that part-human, part-machine cyborgs belong only in fiction, but adding a bit of technology into your body could help prop it up as it ages, as researchers are demonstrating with the development of artificial retinas to improve deteriorating vision.

At the Tel Aviv University in Israel, a research team is developing a retinal implant that restores sight in patients that suffer from degenerative diseases of the retina.

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