An 80-year-old woman from the United Kingdom is the first patient to undergo gene therapy to treat age-related macular…
Today, many people who are blind or have low vision must cobble together different hardware and software just to use…
On Tuesday, a 13-year-old boy from New Jersey was at the center of medical history as he became the first person in the…
British doctors have taken a huge step towards curing a common form of age-related chronic eye condition.
In a major breakthrough, a gene therapy for a rare inherited form of blindness received approval from the Food and Drug…
It’s often said that the loss of one sense improves the others. New research shows the dramatic extent to which this is…
An unproven stem cell therapy conducted by a Florida clinic has blinded three patients in an apparent clinical trial…
Dan Mancia’s vision started to fade when he was thirteen. Now, he only has a very small amount of peripheral vision in…
DeepMind made a name for itself by building a computer that beat the world champion at Go (and freaked everyone out)…
Two poor souls suffered through MRIs, heart scans, and other medical tests to figure out what was causing them to go…
Scientists have used stem cells to cure blindness in rabbits—which could be incredible news for visually impaired…
You may consider your eyes a priceless commodity, but for Mexican cavefish, they were a burdensome expense. In a…
Echolocation isn’t just for bats and dolphins—people can do it, too. Some blind people have learned to use echolocation…
Joshua Loevy is an attorney in Kansas City, MO, who happens to be blind. For years, people have compared him to blind…
What does space feel like? I'm not talking about space itself—but rather the images we see in a telescope. Could you…
For people going blind from retinal degeneration, there are almost no therapies. Their vision dims and they lose their…
They once were blind but now they see. Which begs the question — what exactly do people see when they gain sight for…
It's not every day that science and crazy brain implants lead to the generation of what is essentially a new sense,…
Some mice that once were blind can now see, thanks to a breakthrough from researchers at UC Berkley. And humans might…
Braille wasn't widely in use in the 1830s, but Samuel Gridley Howe, founder and president of the New England Institute…
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