Color-Changing Sensor Detects Signs of Eye Damage in Tears

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A new point-of-care rapid-sensing device can detect a key marker of eye injury in minutes – a time frame crucial to treating eye trauma.

Orion, the Cortical Visual Prosthesis System, gets full FDA approval

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The FDA has granted full approval to Second Sight Medical Products (SSMP) to begin the feasibility study for the Orion-I^TM Cortical Visual Prosthesis System. The approval allows two US sites, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, to enroll up to five total patients. The company’s new Orion I Visual Cortical Prosthesis goes even further by bypassing the optic nerve, along with the entire visual system, and stimulates the brain’s visual cortex directly. This would allow even people who lack any functionality within their eyes to be able to see.