Age-related macular degeneration patients who received injections of retinal cells derived from donors’ induced pluripotent stem cells have maintained their level of eyesight for a year.

Blind rats are made to see after sheets of cells implanted into their eyes make themselves at home.

Researchers stumbled across the connection while searching for ways to reduce vision problems in people with achromatopsia.

Two studies identify a signaling pathway that contributes to the fish’s sleeplessness.

Spark Therapeutics’s Luxturna would be the first approved therapy in the U.S. that replaces or repairs a defective gene inherited from one’s parents.

By investigating the science behind “seeing” with sound, researchers hope to help blind individuals independently navigate the world.

Optometrist and eclipse-chaser Ralph Chou describes how even a partially eclipsed sun can damage the eye.

Researchers improve on a technique to use a light-stimulated small molecule to confer longer-term photosensitivity to the retinal cells of blind mice.

An experimental treatment sacrifices rod cell function to save cone cells in mice, preventing retinal degeneration, researchers report.