Congenital stationary night blindness in dogs is an inherited condition that affects a dog’s retina. Often, the disorder is referred to as “CSNB.” Technically, the condition is also known as ...

Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester.View full profile Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester. A new study has offered hope that we ...

A study funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI) has shown that congenital blindness in mice could be reversed by regenerating rod photoreceptors in the retina. Image Credit: Bo Chen, Ph.D The ...

An investigational gene therapy has shown promise for improving functional vision and restoring light detection in long-dormant rods and cones in the retina in adults and children with a rare form of ...

A new gene therapy for one of the most common forms of congenital blindness was safe and improved patients' vision, according to initial data from a clinical trial led by researchers at the Scheie Eye ...

An experimental gene therapy offers hope for rapid improvement in the night vision of adults who have a congenital form of childhood-onset blindness, researchers report. In this ongoing clinical trial ...

Researchers have reversed congenital blindness in mice by changing supportive cells in the retina called Müller glia into rod photoreceptors. The findings advance efforts toward regenerative therapies ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Retinitis pigmentosa is the most prevalent form of congenital blindness. Using a retinitis pigmentosa mouse model, researchers have now shown that targeted activation of genes of similar function can ...

Baseline features associated with blindness in children with primary congenital glaucoma showed that corneal clouding can predict future blindness, according to research published in the American ...

As a paper just published in Frontiers in Psychology points out, congenital and early blindness appears to protect against schizophrenia. As the authors note, “across all past papers, there has not ...