For generations, adults with amblyopia were told their vision loss was permanent, a childhood problem that medicine could not ...

Carlene Knight's vision was so bad that she couldn't even maneuver around the call center where she works using her cane. "I was bumping into the cubicles and really scaring people that were sitting ...

Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can't go back in time to study the environmental pressures ...

The unprecedented study involves using the gene-editing technique CRISPR to edit a gene while it's still inside a patient's body. In exclusive... Blind Patients Hope Landmark Gene-Editing Experiment ...

Scientists studying the aging process in the eye have made an important discovery around the role of a so-called "youth" protein, and shown how it promotes a cellular recycling process that maintains ...

Imagine you are looking at a manhole cover a few paces away on the street. It looks circular, but this is because of some impressive perceptual machinery in your mind. The pattern of light in your eye ...

While humans have three color cones in the retina sensitive to red, green and blue light, birds have a fourth color cone that can detect ultraviolet light. A research team trained wild hummingbirds to ...

A Harvard University neurobiology lab is under fire for conducting brain and vision experiments on baby monkeys, the latest in a string of efforts by animal welfare groups to shut down tests they view ...

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