Startup Science Corp will begin selling a retina chip in Europe that restores some sight to people with a form of age-related blindness, a milestone for the company that aspires to eventually bring brain implants to the market.
This is the first device from a US brain implant company to be made widely available to patients. Science’s Prima implant is a chip that sits on the back of the eye and, with the aid of a special pair of glasses, enables people to regain some vision.
“This is the first in hopefully a long series of commercial products that proceed to advance that horizon, sometimes incrementally, but relentlessly,” Chief Executive Officer Max Hodak said in an interview.
The Prima implant received the CE mark, which allows sales in Europe without the need for additional country-level approvals.
Science Corp, based in Alameda, California, is the second most valuable US brain implant company,
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