So what happens when a person gets a retinal degenerative disease like macular degeneration?

This is another example of patient specific stem cells that were engineered from someone with retinitis pigmentosa.

So, a solution to the problem, then, would be to build a device that could mimic the actions of that front end circuitry and send signals to the retina's output cells, and they can go back to doing their normal job of sending signals to the brain.

18.Rare diseases

Yeah, it's called Retinitis Pigmentosa.

So let me start in on that problem.

Stem cell derived retinal transplants, now in a research phase, may one day restore vision, or part vision, to millions of patients with retinal diseases worldwide.

Colors are flavonoids and polyphenols.

It's a very difficult procedure, but it is possible to photograph this image.

But fingerprints and retinas are unique.

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

They receive comprehensive eye exams.

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300 to 500 million cases are reported.

I want to tell you about another disorder.

Now when we talk about suicide, there is also a medical contribution here.

She graduated NYU, she has a heart condition.

They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment.

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And, how come you can't detect colors when it's dark?

Three years later, he's ripping through boot camp. Attending physician calls the improvement in his bloodcell count miraculous.

I have Friedreich's ataxia, a neuromuscular disease.

little bit and show you how a normal retina works first so you can see the problem that we were trying to solve.

It'll just bake your retinas.

These are years that we could get.

Some of you may remember that.

Elyn, you don't really understand

Okay, we can start with that. I say no.

Bellini's lymphocemia. It's an autoimmune disease.

It's made a mistake.

I had retinal detachment five years ago.

This experience taught me to empathize more with my patients, and especially those with retinal diseases.

This is a place where the oldest living female population is found.

But, as a cancer doc, this is what I see.

Here's one that's in prototyping by Medtronic that's smaller than a penny.

So it consists of two parts, what we call an encoder and a transducer.

I just wanted to say something about the standard method.

So we are really duplicating the kind of signals that you have on the optic nerve.

Because we understand very little about most human diseases.

like Parkinson's or essential tremor.

It's similar to the pellagra epidemic in Mississippi in the '30s.

I'll show you an example of that real quickly.

When I travel around, I ask my colleagues in biomedical research

We think there's a future to this.

I feel like i'm going clinically insane.