Artificial Retina
August 26, 2014 | Terry Sharrer
Retinas are comprised of several different cell layers, each with a particular purpose such as detecting light, color, and aspects of movement. A fully competent artificial retina would have to do all these things and so far that is beyond the present art. Yet, researchers at Stanford have developed an electrode array that mimics the movement detection (direction, speed, depth of field) of the parasol cells. MORE
Image Credit: E.J. Chichilnisky, Stanford and QMed.com