Both modern and ancient crane fly eyes contain eumelanin, a light-screening pigment.

A trial is recruiting patients to test the gene-editing technology’s ability to treat an inherited form of blindness caused by a mutation in the CEP290 gene.

The UCLA ophthalmologist worked to combat blindness in underserved communities.

The silver spinyfin has an extraordinary diversity of rod photopigments, which researchers propose may allow it to see color in the deep, dark sea.

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.

Researchers injected the retinas of mice with nanoparticles that bound to photoreceptors and converted near-infrared light to green light that the animals could see.

A missing microRNA leads to degenerating neurons and blindness in a fruit fly.

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

Ultraflexible mesh electrodes monitor the intact, functioning eyes of awake animals.