Saffie Sandford from Stevenage was diagnosed with Leber's Congenital Amaurosis, (LCA) a mutation in the RPE 65 gene.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo credit: FatCamera / Getty Images) Congenital stationary night blindness in dogs is an inherited condition that affects a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The breakthrough treatment, developed over 25 years, has already helped restore vision for some patients.

Three Philadelphia scientists won a $3 million Breakthrough Prize for developing the first FDA-approved gene therapy for a genetic disease, prize sponsors announced Saturday. Their work created a ...

Some forms of congenital blindness originate from abnormalities in basic signaling mechanisms in photoreceptor neurons of the retina. Photoreceptors respond to light by modulating the permeability of ...

Some U.S. experts say there is no evidence that the stem-cell therapy being offered in China will work in one of the most common causes of childhood blindness, optic-nerve hypoplasia (ONH). We asked ...

In the new Netflix series All the Light We Cannot See, a blind French girl called Marie-Laure LeBlanc makes illicit radio broadcasts from her uncle’s house in Nazi-occupied France. We are told that ...