Artificial muscles restore ability to blink, save eyesight

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 04:49 in Health & Medicine

Surgeons from UC Davis Medical Centre have demonstrated that artificial muscles can restore the ability of patients with facial paralysis to blink, a development that could benefit the thousands of people each year who no longer are able to close their eyelids due to combat-related injuries, stroke, nerve injury or facial surgery...

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