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Phosphenes are an experience of seeing light without light entering your eye. Bionic eye recipients use these to map out a visual scene. Eugene Peretz/Flickr

August 16, 2017

Artificial vision: what people with bionic eyes see

Matthew Petoe, Bionics Institute; Lauren Ayton, Centre for Eye Research Australia, and Mohit Shivdasani, Bionics Institute

The artificial vision provided by a bionic eye is not like natural sight, and takes a lot of getting used to.

Some of the notable additions to the PBS include drugs to treat eye and HIV infections, cystic fibrosis, multiple sclerosis, and cancer. from shutterstock.com

May 4, 2017

New drugs on the PBS: what they do and why we need them

Nial Wheate, University of Sydney

An independent expert provides his pick of the most notable drugs added to the PBS on May 1, 2017.

July 7, 2016

Why hacking the nervous system could be the next big medical treatment

Patrick Degenaar, Newcastle University

The next generation of neuroprosthetics could communicate directly with the brain to tackle diseases such as epilepsy and blindness.

We already use ‘polarised’ technology. Tom Conger

June 30, 2015

Polarised light and the super sense you didn’t know you had

Juliette McGregor, University of Leicester

Here's how you can learn to see the normally hidden effects of polarised light that some animals use for navigation.

We wouldn’t get very far without lubricin keeping our joints moving. tableatny/Flickr

June 24, 2015

Nature’s lubricant makes your body a well-oiled machine

Wren Greene, Deakin University

You may not have heard of the protein lubricin, but it's what keeps your body moving. And now it's being used to treat disease and produce new therapeutics.

May 4, 2012

Vitamins E, C useless against vision disorder

Harvard Medical School & Brigham and Women's Hospital

Taking vitamins E and C have been found to posess no benefits in combating vision degeneration. The ongoing study tracked…

October 21, 2011

Some energy-efficient light globes increase eye disease

Australian National University

Instances of eye disease could increase as a result of the global trend towards replacing incandescent globes with energy-efficient…

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Nial Wheate
Nial Wheate is a Friend of The Conversation.

BPharm Coordinator and Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney
Wren Greene
Associate Research Fellow, Deakin University
Juliette McGregor
Research Associate, University of Leicester
Patrick Degenaar
Reader in Neuroprosthesis, Newcastle University
Matthew Petoe
Team Leader, Bionic Eye Psychophysics, Bionics Institute
Lauren Ayton
Senior research fellow, Department of Surgery (Ophthalmology) University of Melbourne, Centre for Eye Research Australia
Mohit Shivdasani
Senior research fellow, Bionics Institute