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 ...

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 ...

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' ...

After doctors dismissed a white dot in her newborn’s eye as a birthmark, Maggie Spicer’s instincts led to a diagnosis that changed her daughter’s life ...

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

New research has found a novel target with therapeutic potential for metastatic eye melanoma—an aggressive eye cancer—with ...

New research shows that retinal neurons can rewire to preserve vision in retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic disease causing blindness.