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A daredevil researcher’s latest quest: to restore sight lost to glaucoma using virtual reality

PALO ALTO, Calif. — In the name of science, Andrew Huberman has gone diving 40 feet underwater with great white sharks. He’s gone mountain climbing without ropes or harnesses, traversing some sections where one slip would have sent him plummeting 650 feet. Now, the Stanford neuroscientist is embarking on a different kind of daring quest,...

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Nanowire retinal implant could restore sight with better resolution

Researchers at UC San Diego have developed a nano-scale retinal implant that could restore sight with higher resolution than other bionic eye systems   Advances in bionic eyes over the past few decades have given blind and visually impaired people new hope of restoring some of their vision. Now engineers have tested a new nano-scale system that could...