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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An injectable gene therapy caused measurable improvements in vision among a small group of people with inherited blindness, an early-stage clinical trial says. Researchers recruited 14 people with ...

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 ...

Men are more likely to experience colour vision deficiency (colour blindness) than women, in line with the principles of Mendelian genetics.

What if the darkness that enveloped a child's world suddenly… vanished? What if hope, once a whisper, roared into life with a ...

S. R. D., a 34-year-old woman from the Indian state of Gujarat, was born with cataracts in both eyes (Ostrovsky et al., 2006). She perceived only light until she was 12 years old, when a surgeon ...

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 ...

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 ...

University of Southampton provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. In the new Netflix series All the Light We Cannot See, a blind French girl called Marie-Laure LeBlanc makes illicit radio ...