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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 24, 2009 – Born with a retinal disease that made him legally blind, and would eventually leave him totally sightless, the nine-year-old boy used to sit in the back of the ...

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 ...

In recent months, even as our attention has been focused on the coronavirus outbreak, there have been a slew of scientific breakthroughs in treating diseases that cause blindness. Researchers at ...

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 ...

In a previous post, I showed how the diametric model of mental illness could explain why congenital blindness appears to prevent schizophrenia. Since then, a parallel implication of the diametric ...