{"id":574,"date":"2000-10-26T04:58:35","date_gmt":"2000-10-26T04:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2000\/10\/26\/vision-researcher-first-to-implant\/"},"modified":"2000-10-26T04:58:35","modified_gmt":"2000-10-26T04:58:35","slug":"vision-researcher-first-to-implant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2000\/10\/26\/vision-researcher-first-to-implant\/","title":{"rendered":"Vision Researcher First to Implant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blindness.org\/html\/newest\/wchipweb.html\">Vision Researcher First to Implant an Artificial Retina in Humans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the first time ever, researchers from a company called Optobionics surgically implanted an artificial retina into three patients who are blind from retinitis pigmentosa. These highly-experimental prosthetic devices, made of silicone computer chips, are intended to restore ambulatory vision, thereby giving people the freedom to walk without the assistance of a cane or guide dog.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vision Researcher First to Implant an Artificial Retina in Humans &#8220;For the first time ever, researchers from a company called Optobionics surgically implanted an artificial retina into three patients who are blind from retinitis pigmentosa. These highly-experimental prosthetic devices, made of silicone computer chips, are intended to restore ambulatory vision, thereby giving people the freedom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}