Researchers at the Eye Genetics Research Unit at Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI) are the first in the world to ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...