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Friday, August 31, 2012

Bionic eye breakthrough as Australian woman receives radical world first implant

Bionic eye breakthrough as Australian woman receives radical world first implant | Mail Online: "Scientists have taken an important step towards helping visually impaired people lead independent lives after a bionic eye gave a blind Australian woman partial sight.

A prototype of the bionic eye created by Bionic Vision Australia (BVA), who said today they had successfully implanted the 'world first' bionic eye prototype

Dianne Ashworth, who has severe vision loss due to the inherited condition retinitis pigmentosa, was fitted with a prototype bionic eye in May at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital."

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