Gaining Sight After Years of Blindness Takes Time. Visual areas of the brain need to learn to organize and interpret sensory ...

Gene-testing specialist Editas Medicine has halted development of its lead clinical programme for congenital eye disorders after it generated lacklustre results in a phase 1/2 trial. The ...

Most gene therapies being studied for eye diseases are in earlier phases of development, and a third of the gene therapies ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

There is a lot of talk at the moment about fears of World War 3 breaking out and conscription being introduced. And while it ...

Congenital cranial dysinnervation disorders (CCDD) encompass a number of related conditions and includes Duane syndrome, congenital fibrosis of the external ocular muscles, Möbius syndrome, congenital ...

Since the approval of the first-ever gene therapy for blindness, there has been a wave of biotechs developing gene therapy treatments with the potential to cure different forms of genetic vision loss.

Counsel said between the ages of two and seven years of age the little girl had six surgeries which their side would say 'were either wrong or should not have taken place at all' ...

Kevin Choi uses AI to detect critical diseases early through retinal scans. He said AI helps in screening, but it won't ...