http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—For UCLA bioengineering professor Wentai Liu, more than two decades of visionary research burst into the headlines last month when the FDA approved what it called "the first bionic eye for the blind." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-bionic-eye.html Ophthalmology Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:58:26 EST news283424294 Artificial retina implants for treating neurodegenerative diseases and blindness were developed by the EU-funded 'Diamond to retina artificial micro-interface structures' (Dreams) project. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-diamond-implants.html Medical research Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:16:22 EST news254981769