The team was co-led by May Griffith, a researcher at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre, which is affiliated with Université de Montréal and is part of the CIUSSS de l’Est-de-l’Île-de-Montréal.
Biotech
Can Billions of Tiny Gold Flecks Help Restore Vision?
Scientists have come up with an extraordinary treatment for blindness that involves injecting 10 billion small flecks of gold into each eyeball.
People with Severe Vision Loss are Less Likely to Accurately Judge Distance of Nearby Sounds
A new study shows that greater severity of vision loss is associated with increased auditory judgments of distance and room size.
This New Bionic Eye Could One Day Give Blind People 20/20 Vision
A bionic eye could restore sight to the blind and greatly improve robotic vision, but current visual sensors are a long way from the impressive attributes of nature’s design. Now researchers have found a way to mimic its structure and create an artificial eye that reproduces many of its capabilities.
Researchers Develop Method to Draw Letters and Shapes Directly on the Human Brain
Scientists give blind people ‘sight’ by drawing shapes directly on their brains
These Smart Glasses Help Monitor COVID-19 Patients Remotely
In response to COVID-19 more and more institutions are using Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology to facilitate patient care.
How to Keep Your Glasses From Fogging Up While Wearing a Face Mask
You know what’s not fun? Wearing a face mask to help slow the spread of COVID-19 like a responsible citizen, and then getting fogged-up glasses. Yes, we’d rather get foggy glasses than catch or spread this unprecedented virus—or go against CDC recommendations to wear a face covering in public.
How to Turn Off COVID-19 Exposure Notifications in iOS
Apple recently introduced its first version of exposure notification API. The API has been designed to allow apps developed by public health authorities to notify users who come into contact with COVID-19 victims. The Exposure Notification will let a user know if they have been exposed to the virus. The beta was recently released and if you have installed the latest beta on your iPhone or iPad, you can make use of the feature right now.
Researchers Demonstrate Alternative to Stem Cells Thanks To New Method of Synthesizing
Age-related macular degeneration (MD) is a variety of ocular disease that affects so many millions of people, it’s downright characterized as nothing more than the process of aging.
Software Developer Makes Corona Virus Statistics Website Accessible for the Blind and Partially Sighted
A Boston-based software developer wanted to make COVID-19 stats accessible
He created a website that would be easily readable by electronic braille readers and other assistive devices used by the blind and partially sighted.
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