Artificial muscles restore ability to blink, save eyesight
Monday, January 18, 2010 - 06:49
in Health & Medicine
Surgeons from UC Davis Medical Center have demonstrated that artificial muscles can restore the ability of patients with facial paralysis to blink, a development that could benefit the thousands of people each year who no longer are able to close their eyelids due to combat-related injuries, stroke, nerve injury or facial surgery.