Jesus cries - really. The state of science reporting is beyond pathetic, it's a damn tragedy. This device isn't implanted into the CORNEA. The cornea is thin. The natural crystalline lens *inside* the eye is removed by the normal method (phaco - ultrasound plus suction) and then this is wedged in with a surgery that will make you pray to whatever ghods you love that you never ever get one of these diseases. My engineers made some of the very first of these devices Way Back When (it worked sorta kinda) and the current version (fifteen years later) of the device is a Good Thing if you already have significant vision loss from AMD. As to stem cell therapies for the retina... that's a ways off. If you have single eye corneal blindness from acid burns, we can harvest limbal stem cells from the other eye and make a real difference, but the retinal stem cell work is amazingly primitive. When it comes to bio interventions, we're still banging the rocks together...

Exactamente! And you can have fun with this. Take a half hour in the evening, hit some random topic sites (gee, did you know there are forums for people who collect antique knitting needles?), make some polite and thoughtful comments. My sole add to the above to is to get a separate gmail or other account so that you don't have your usual accounts drown. What you want is mostly stuff related to your career, but then enough random but interesting, and a good bit of your actual hobbies.