Australians Implant "World First" Bionic Eye

By Good News Network Friday, August 31, 2012

Health - General

Australian scientists said Thursday they had successfully implanted a “world first” bionic eye prototype, describing it as a major breakthrough for the visually impaired.

Bionic Vision Australia, a government-funded science consortium, said it had surgically installed an “early prototype” robotic eye in a woman with hereditary sight loss caused by degenerative retinitis pigmentosa.

(READ the story in Outcome Magazine)