Researchers have identified a new disease that affects the macula, a small part of the light-sensing retina needed for sharp, central vision. Researchers from the National Eye Institute (NEI) have ...

Less than 30% of people with certain genetic variants go blind, despite the faulty genes previously being thought to cause ...

Researchers use UK Biobank data to uncover new information about rare diseases of the eye. Researchers have analysed image and genomic data from the UK Biobank to find insights into rare diseases of ...

After a long day at work, Jamie Smith expected to have a normal night at home with her two sons. But when she noticed her youngest son’s eyes shaking, she knew something was wrong. At 4 months old, ...

An estimated 295 million people suffer from visual impairment globally. Around 43 million of those people are living with blindness. While not every form of blindness can be cured, recent scientific ...

AbbVie and Capsida Biotherapeutics will collaborate to develop three genetic medicine programs for eye diseases, building on a partnership announced in 2021 to develop gene therapies for central ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Over the past 2 decades, a large body of research has shed light on the molecular determinants of many human ...

Vision changes are an inevitable part of aging, but why are some more susceptible to age-related eye diseases and why do some individuals experience more severe decline than others? New research from ...

Curing debilitating genetic diseases is one of the great challenges of modern medicine. During the past decade, development of CRISPR technologies and advancements in genetics research brought new ...