Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #blindness, aggregated by home.social.
RE: https://mas.to/@seeingwithsound/117399052465336039
The Eyes On Success podcast "Seeing with sound using vOICe" can now also be listened to on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGV76EA9oFI Many thanks to Pranav Lal, Jacob Kruger, and our podcast hosts Nancy and Peter Torpey! #BCI #blindness
(YouTube) #ICVP study: participant experience, science and Q&A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBvB1lX0sOI Chyvonne Blanchard shares her experience participating in the Intracortical Visual Prosthesis (ICVP) study. Reaching and grasping example at 1624s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBvB1lX0sOI&t=1624s #BCI #blindness
Statins may lower glaucoma risk and reduce treatment needs
Taking statins is linked to a lower risk of developing glaucoma and a reduced chance of it getting…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #blindness #CA #Canada #Cell #CellDeath #cholesterol #eye #glaucoma #Nerve #ophthalmology #research #Statin #Surgery
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/923700/
Where #optogenetics is closest to patients: "blind people with retinitis pigmentosa" https://insidebci.com/news/2026-10-07-nobel-deisseroth-optogenetics-light-brain-computer-interfaces-nanoscope-maplight/ Nobel laureate Karl Deisseroth says light-based brain-computer interfaces will take a little time to build; #BCI #blindness #RP
#Paradromics on brain vision https://paradromics.com/platform/#brain-vision "Send visual information directly to the brain to restore sight and potentially enable new forms of vision, from enhanced detail to expanded light and thermal perception." #BCI #blindness
Optogenetics for retinitis pigmentosa: sight from algae https://www.elshatoryretina.com/a-patient-with-retinitis-pigmentosa/ Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for 2026 #optogenetics #RP #blindness
"Does optogenetic therapy restore normal vision? No. It provides limited, functional light sensitivity through a bypass pathway rather than restoring vision to normal. Patients require time and training to learn to interpret this new form of visual input."