A prosthetic eye to treat blindness

Title:: A prosthetic eye to treat blindness
Speaker:: Sheila Nirenberg
Description:: At TEDMED, Sheila Nirenberg shows a bold way to create sight in people with certain kinds of blindness: by hooking into the optic nerve and sending signals from a camera direct to the brain.

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Video Language:: English
Team:: closed TED
Project:: TEDTalks
Duration:: 09:44

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