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  TED: Sheila Nirenberg: A prosthetic eye to treat blindness - Sheila Nirenberg (2011)

  Posted: December 20th, 2011, 11:08am EST by TEDTalks

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  At TEDMED, Sheila Nirenberg shows a bold way to create sight in people with certain kinds of blindness: by hooking into the optic nerve and sending signals from a camera direct to the brain.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDTalks_video/~4/94Rju2E9_M8" height="1" width="1"/