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July 22, 2015 03:26 pm GMT

Bionic eye implant gives 80-year-old man part of his vision back

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Restoring eyesight through a bionic eye implant is no longer the stuff of science fiction.

Ray Flynn, an 80-year-old man from the UK, is the latest patient to have his vision partially restored through a bionic eye implant, according to the BBC.

See also: Bionic eye implant lets a blind man see his wife for the first time in 10 years

Surgeons in Manchester successfully implanted the Argus II, a bionic eye implant made by Second Sight, into Flynn allowing him to see the "outlines of people and objects very effectively" where he previously could not.

Flynn has dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a medical condition that prevents him from having central vision, meaning everything in the middle of his sight looks like a circular blur. Read more...

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