Artificial retina restores (some) sight to the blind (The Wenatchee World)

9 March 2010, 6:02 am

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — When Dean Lloyd, a 68-year-old Palo Alto, Calif., lawyer, was in his mid-30s, a hereditary eye disease began taking his sight. By his late 40s, he was completely blind. So when a clinical trial started to test an artificial retina, which would restore at least partial sight, he seized the opportunity. It didn’t hurt that he was a longtime science aficionado, and fascinated ...... Read More »

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