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A prosthetic eye to treat blindness - Sheila Nirenberg

2013-07-26

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At TEDMED, Sheila Nirenberg shows a bold way to create sight in people with certain kinds of blindness: by hooking into the optic nerve and sending signals from a camera direct to the brain.

Talk by Sheila Nirenberg.


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