The Eye Amazing Implants

                                         Independent Research-Term 2

Hi all. Welcome to this post. In here, I am going to introduce an amazing science discovery which helped to change the darkness of the blind to light.

Title of chosen article:Eye implant restores vision to blind patients

      Overall, the main purpose of this article is to report about this new scientific discovery. The key scientific question this author is asking is: Is the blind fated to be blind forever?

        In here, the writer starts with the doctors findings of this new mechanism. He then continues with what happens to a blind person and how this device helps him.Basically, what happens when someone goes blind is that the cells responsible of converting light into electrical pulses to the brain have died. What this chip does is simply replicate what happens to these dead cells and transmit these signals to the brain.

      I feel that this article can be trusted as it evidence to support that it works. As stated:

  

 "Two blind men can see again after being given electronic eye implants in the first successful trial in the UK."

 Moreover, this company, The Telegraph, is not the only ones who wrote about this. Others include:The Guardian and MIT Technological Review. However, the set back is that this implant works best on this form of blindness calledretinitis pigmentosa (RP).As stated;

"Doctors said the patients, who have an inherited form of blindness called retinitis pigmentosa (RP), had regained "useful vision" just weeks after having a light-sensitive microchip inserted into the back of their eye."

 Also, the implant does not allow the person to fully regain his or her eyesight. Which means that more can be done in the research of this form. As stated in the article:

"The patients can see fairly basic shapes and distinguish a white plate on a dark table, for example. It may be that with time their vision becomes more refined because the brain has to relearn how to see."