Some babies are born with early blindness due to dense bilateral congenital cataracts, requiring surgery to restore their ...

Rhythmic electrical activity in the retina (known as pathological oscillations) has been observed in several eye diseases, ...

A brief period of blindness right after birth can have lasting effects on how the brain processes visual detail—but surprisingly, not on how it recognizes faces, objects, or words. The team studied ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA—Adults with a genetic form of childhood-onset blindness experienced striking recoveries of night vision within days of receiving an experimental gene therapy, according to researchers at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adults with a genetic form of childhood-onset blindness experienced striking recoveries of night vision within days of receiving an experimental gene therapy. Adults with a genetic form of ...