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Will the "bionic eye" be considered safe and effective in humans?

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Scientists at the University of Miguel Hernandez, in Elche, Spain, were able to perform the first implantation of a bionic eye in a patient who had lost her vision 16 years before that. The equipment captures the image and translates it into electronic signals that are sent to the electrodes implanted in the patient's brain. The images, however, are still quite rudimentary and have low resolution.

The next tests to be conducted will be to analyze whether the implant degrades while it is in the body and whether it is safe and effective in other patients. If tests go as planned, by 2022 the equipment should have been tested in five other patients.

If by the end of 2022 scientists announced that the bionic eye was found to be safe and effective in the other five patients as well, this question will be answered as "yes".

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