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Brian Vastag

JAMA. 2002;288:1833-1834.

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Washington—Superman had it, and in a decade many others could have supervision, according to scientists who are developing eye implants that translate digital camera images into a flow of neurotransmitters that mimic natural vision.

"The possibilities are limitless if you continue this [research] to its logical conclusion," said Harvey Fishman, MD, PhD, director of the Ophthalmic Tissue Engineering Laboratory at Stanford University School of Medicine. "You could have any kind of vision you want, you could see infrared, you could see the stars."

Before that sky-high vision materializes, though, research being conducted by Fishman and others offers hope to more than 4 million blind people in the United States. Because the implants would act as artificial retinas, they could help those whose blindness is caused by age-related macular degeneration or hereditary retinitis pigmentosa, the two most common retina-destroying diseases.

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