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Scientists from EPFL in Switzerland and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Italy are developing technology for the blind that bypasses the eyeball entirely and sends messages to the brain. They do this by stimulating the optic nerve with a new type of intraneural electrode called OpticSELINE. Diego Ghezzi

Scientists from EPFL in Switzerland and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Italy are developing technology for the blind that bypasses the eyeball entirely and sends messages to the brain. They do this by stimulating the optic nerve with a new type of intraneural electrode called OpticSELINE. Diego Ghezzi

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Research and Tech Transfer , STI, Biology, Research and Tech Transfer, Neuroscience
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EPFL - Alain Herzog
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Aug. 19, 2019
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Optic nerve stimulation to aid the blind

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