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A Second Chance at Sight
The bionic dream is to one day be able to replace human parts with biomedical cellular reconstructed organs or electro-mechanical systems. These systems will restore or enhance physical abilities to pre-damaged conditions.
The eye implant described in this month's column is the product of twenty years of research and development. The collaborators include engineers, scientists, and medical doctors from MIT, Harvard Medical School, Cornell University, and the Boston VA Medical Center.
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"Bionic Sight"
As a Pediatric Ophthalmologist Dr. Alan Chow was frustrated by his inability to prevent a degenerative eye disease from blinding one of his young patients. He is the originator of the vision chip.
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"Artificial Heart"
Approximately five million people in the placecountry-regionUnited States today suffer from Congestive Heart Failure, a disease that can simply be described as a broken heart. During the FDA study eighty percent of the patients in need of heart transplant surgery survived on this artificial heart long enough to have their hearts replaced with a donor heart.
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"PolyHeme: The Universal Blood Substitute"
This study will determine if this artificial oxygen carrying blood substitute, which is compatible with all blood types, is ready for widespread use in everyday trauma and surgical settings.
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"Deactivating Blood Pathogens"
With all the possible dangers, people all over the world still need blood transfusions at a rate of one person every three seconds. A new blood cleansing technology has recently been developed that deactivates pathogens in blood components.
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