POSTS TAGGED AS ophthalmology

Designing Devices

Sensimed Triggerfish Contact Lens
Tagline has included earlier reports of electronic contact lenses, but this piece, about Sensimed AG’s (Lausanne, [MORE]

Prototype Bionic Eye that Detects Light

In a world’s first, surgeons at the Centre for Eye Research Australia have implanted a prototype bionic eye behind [MORE]

Gene Therapy for Blindness?

Green fluorescent protein in photoreceptors and retinal pigment epithelial cells after subretinal injection of AAV8 in a monkey retina. [MORE]

Light Sabers for Cataract Surgery

Cataract Surgery
Ophthalmologists at Stanford University have automated cataract surgery using a precision laser and optical coherence tomography.  The tomography [MORE]

Cellphone Device for Vision Testing

Eye Testing
Phoropters and aberrometers are the two devices optometrists use for determining eyeglass prescriptions.  An eye test also requires [MORE]

Eye-Implantable Mini-Telescope

Implanted Eye Telescope
Last year, Tagline noticed the development of a miniature telescope that could be implanted to replace the [MORE]

Automated Eye Scan for Diabetes-Related Lesions

University of Iowa researchers have tested two computerized image analyzer programs and found both comparable for accuracy to expert [MORE]

Electronic Contact Lens

Electronic Contact Lens
Electrical engineering professor Babak Parviz, at the University of Washington/Seattle, has developed a prototype bionic eye-or, at [MORE]

Bionic Eye

VisionCare Telescope
VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies (Saratoga, CA) has developed a small (pencil eraser size) telescope that can be implanted in the [MORE]