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I know the main problem right now is the fact that the eye's optical nerve can't regenerate. If it does works like optical fiber, maybe something could be made

I know the main problem right now is the fact that the eye's optical nerve can't regenerate. If it does works like optical fiber, maybe something could be made to mend the optical nerve using optical fiber. Stem cell technology seems ever elusive, but still if not that, than this. Thanks for the kickstarter and darpa link, it seems really interesting.

dm2 13y ago
"the fact that the eye's optical nerve can't regenerate" It might not regenerate on it's own, but that doesn't mean it can't regenerate. http://www.childrenshospital.org/news-and-events/2012/may-2012/first-light-scientists-regenerate-the-optic-nerve-restore-some-components-of-vision http://www.childrenshospital.org/news-and-events/2012/may-20... "A team at Boston Children’s Hospital reports a three-pronged intervention that not only got optic nerve fibers to grow the full length of the visual pathway (from retina to the visual areas of the brain), but also restored some basic elements of vision in live mice." http://webvision.med.utah.edu/2012/07/full-length-axon-regeneration-in-the-adult-mouse-optic-nerve-and-partial-recovery-of-simple-visual-behaviors/ http://webvision.med.utah.edu/2012/07/full-length-axon-regen...