The life-changing treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital means Saffie can now, for the first time, see her parents’ faces ...

Six-year-old Saffie Sandford from Stevenage has regained her sight after receiving Luxturna, a first-of-its-kind NHS gene therapy for Leber's Congenital Amaurosis. The treatment involved injecting a ...

A husband-and-wife team whose love story began in a Harvard anatomy lab have won one of science’s biggest awards for creating ...

A medical team from the Penn Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, has been awarded the prestigious Breakthrough ...

Molecular biologist Jean Bennett and ophthalmologist Albert Maguire were awarded the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life ...

A brain that develops in the deprivation of one sense reorganises itself in surprising ways, revealing remarkable neuroplasticity. Researchers studied the brain activity of young congenitally deaf and ...

Three scientists have won the 2026 Breakthrough Prize for developing Luxturna — the world's first FDA-approved gene therapy ...

The Foundation Fighting Blindness, the driving force in the global development of treatments and cures for blinding diseases, ...

Mr Toh Khai Shern has about 20 per cent vision, limited to light and shadows. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Coding in near darkness, guided only by sound and determination, Toh Khai Shern has achieved what once seemed impossible, ...

LOS ANGELES, April 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Their discovery started with a group of blind dogs living at a vet school. Now, the work has been awarded the prestigious Breakthrough Prize at the "Oscars ...

A couple won a $3 million science award for their groundbreaking gene therapy, Luxturna, which treats blindness caused by ...