Anesthetizing the retina of a “lazy” eye for just two days can restore vision in mice.

Paired with external glasses, a tiny chip that is surgically placed under the retina is helping people who are legally blind ...

Scientists have found that an existing drug, already used in humans to treat alcohol use disorder, could help restore vision lost to conditions like age-related macular degeneration and retinitis ...

Visual impairment has been a major issue for humankind for its entire history, but has become more pressing with society’s evolution into a world which revolves around visual acuity. Whether it’s ...

Low Vision Awareness Month Highlights Life-Changing Options for People with Vision Loss BLAINE, MN, UNITED STATES, ...

Scientists are making dramatic strides toward a goal that once seemed almost unimaginable: Restoring limited vision to people affected by a previously irreversible form of blindness caused by an ...

This story is part 5 of an occasional series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection of interventions that restore to normal ...

It was a sunny day in Kyiv, Ukraine when Oleksandr Popruzhenko, a 20-year-old senior lieutenant in the Ukrainian army, was training a group of 15 soldiers on the proper way to lob a grenade. Shortly ...

Technologies to compensate for limited sight have come a long way from the invention of Braille in the 1800s, but scientists are hoping to still take this a step further and restore vision altogether.

Imagine what suffering from retinitis pigmentosa is like. Imagine gradually losing your vision over the course of forty years, waking up every morning with a tiny bit more of your peripheral vision ...