Microchip is helping restore vision to the blind
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 14:14
in Physics & Chemistry
Last year, Wentai Liu watched as surgeons implanted a microchip he had designed into the eye of a blind patient. For Liu, a professor of electrical engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, it was a major milestone in two decades of work on an artificial retina to restore vision to the blind.
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