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Bionic Vision Restoration: Could Future Technologies Restore Sight?
How have advances in neurobiology, visual processing, microelectronics/nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, and intelligent software algorithms made bionic vision restoration technologies a possibility? The advancement of technologies in the labs has allowed researchers to see what is going on with the biology at the cellular level and people began to understand that even if the photoreceptors have died, the rest of the visual pathway was still open.
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