A prosthetic eye to treat blindness

Name: A prosthetic eye to treat blindness
Uploaded: 2011-12-20T16:08:37Z
Duration: 9 min 48 s
Description: 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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TEDMED 2011

• October 2011

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.