#retinal

This is a different breakthrough than I just posted. It uses #nanotechnogy
Optics.org: Brown University nanoparticles help restore lost vision
A project at #BrownUniversity has developed a new approach to the treatment of age-related #maculardegeneration (AMD) and other #retinal disorders.
#Blindness

https://optics.org/news/16/4/36

SciTechDaily: Breakthrough Drug Restores Vision: Researchers Successfully Reverse #Retinal Damage
#Blind
https://scitechdaily.com/breakthrough-drug-restores-vision-researchers-successfully-reverse-retinal-damage/

Will their #bionic #eyes be obsolete and unsupported too? As another #retinal #implant company goes broke, the tech's future dims https://spectrum.ieee.org/retina-implant-pixium-sa-receivership by @meharris; investors: #Pixium #Vision is looking for a buyer to invest some $64 million, soon; $ALPIX #BCI #NeuroTech #blind #blindness #PixiumVision

Writing alt text reminds me of when our son was young and we narrated the world and built color vocabulary for his black and white and grey vision. #achromatic #retinal disorder.

Pixium Vision - Shareholder loan extends runway until end of November 2023 https://www.edisongroup.com/research/shareholder-loan-extends-runway/32592/Further extensions needed to get to commercialization in the first half of 2025; $ALPIX #retinal #implant

Pixium Vision extends cash runway from end of September until end of November 2023 https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/07/28/2713390/0/en/Pixium-Vision-announces-the-implementation-of-a-bridge-financing-with-Bpifrance-and-Sofinnova-and-a-reverse-stock-split-on-the-basis-of-1-new-share-for-50-existing-shares.html Pixium Vision announces the implementation of a bridge financing with Bpifrance and Sofinnova; $ALPIX #retinal #implant

#Pixium #Vision now has a cash runway lasting until end of September 2023 https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2023/06/08/2684407/0/en/Pixium-Vision-announces-receipt-of-1-8-million-from-the-French-Government-as-Research-Tax-Credit.html Pixium Vision announces receipt of € 1.8 million from the French Government as Research Tax Credit; $ALPIX #retinal #implant

Intraretinal stimulation with high density carbon fiber microelectrodes https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10123735 by James Weiland et al.; "modification of pulse amplitudes and electrode depths can create small and focal responses around the active electrode"; #retinal #implant, retinal #prosthesis

High-fidelity reproduction of visual signals by electrical stimulation in the central primate retina https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2023/05/11/JNEUROSCI.1091-22.2023.long "results support the possibility of reproducing high-acuity visual signals in the central retina with an #epiretinal implant"; #retinal #implant, #artificial #vision, #blind

#Postdoc position at Aarhus University, Denmark: Electrophysiological measurements for solar cell #retinal #implants https://health.au.dk/en/about-health/vacant-positions/job/postdoc-in-electrophysiological-measurements-for-solar-cell-retinal-implants-2

#SpikeSEE: An energy-efficient dynamic scenes processing framework for #retinal #prostheses https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0893608023002332 "predicts the response of ganglion cells more accurately with lower energy consumption"; "retinal "implants

Development of polymeric blue prosthetic retina photoreceptors https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43580-023-00525-1 Sub-#retinal #implant; #prosthesis #blindness

New UCLA research in mice suggests that “dormant” cone #photoreceptors in the degenerating #retina are not #dormant at all, but continue to function, producing responses to light and driving #retinal activity for #vision.
#Ophthalmology #Biology #Medical #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/03/bio03282301.html

Estimating #phosphene locations using eye movements of #suprachoroidal #retinal #prosthesis users https://tvst.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2785464

RT @ORBITAL_ITN: Great opportunity for #10 #researchers across a new MSCA DN - "Targeting RNA as an approach for treating retinal disease" (RETORNA).
@REA_research #JobFairy #PhD #Retinal #ODD @mscactions @HorizonEU
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/61923

: https://n.respublicae.eu/REA_research/status/1618997339754233856

(free subscription required) One of the last new argonauts: A review of the #Argus II artificial retinal implant, by Ross A. Doerr https://www.toptechtidbits.com/138.html PDF at https://www.toptechtidbits.com/documents/ARGUS-II-Artificial-Retinal-Implant-Review-By-Ross-A-Doerr.pdf #retinal #implant, #visual #prosthesis; #NeuroTech #neuroscience

Causes of #blindness: LHX2 & OTX2 regulate the #retinal pigmented epithelium differentiation program; a causal risk SNP contributes to age-related #MacularDegeneration by altering binding of LHX2-OTX2 to TRPM1 promoter @asherypadan1 &co #AMD #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3HcLvok

Causes of #blindness: LHX2 & OTX2 regulate the #retinal pigmented epithelium differentiation program; a causal risk SNP contributes to age-related #MacularDegeneration by altering binding of LHX2-OTX2 to TRPM1 promoter @asherypadan1 &co #AMD #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3HcLvok

Causes of #blindness: LHX2 & OTX2 regulate the #retinal pigmented epithelium differentiation program; a causal risk SNP contributes to age-related #MacularDegeneration by altering binding of LHX2-OTX2 to TRPM1 promoter @asherypadan1 &co #AMD #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3HcLvok

Pixium Vision - Next-generation implant chip highlighted https://www.edisongroup.com/research/next-generation-implant-chip-highlighted/31864/ #retinal #implant; "We believe #Pixium is seeking additional funding as it is currently funded to the middle of Q223"; $ALPIX