In the last year, doctors and engineers have seen great success in providing amputees with highly controllable prosthetic limbs. The DEKA "Luke Arm," for instance, gives the wearer precise enough ...

Researchers at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) has led to the revolutionary development of an artificial liquid retinal prosthesis to counteract the effects of ...

An international team of scientists, of which the University of Granada (UGR) is a member, has developed a new nanoparticle-based artificial retina prosthesis that can be injected into the eye. Thanks ...

Donor corneas are a rarity, but a newly developed implant made of plastic may soon offer patients the chance to see again. Donor corneas are a rarity: In Germany alone, each year roughly 7,000 ...