Development of the first biohybrid artificial retina built with silk fibroin and retinal cells.
“The biohybrid retina is a cell therapy for the reconstruction of the damaged retina by implanting healthy cells in the patient’s eye,” says Fivos Panetsos, director of the Neuro-computation and Neuro-robotics Group of the UCM and member of the Institute of Health Research of the Hospital ClĂnico San Carlos de Madrid (IdISSC). The cells of…