A blind mother is rejoicing after having her eyesight restored with an innovative treatment. According to the BBC, Nicki Guy ...

Science fiction promised us a 21st century filled with flying cars, robotic neighbors, and bionic body parts. While our robot besties and their flying cars are apparently running late, mechanically ...

A tiny wireless chip placed at the back of the eye is giving people with severe vision loss something they had been told they ...

Meetings between donor families and those who receive organ or tissue transplants are rare, but when families meet, it can be a very emotional experience. As it was when Art Durshimer and his wife, ...

For the first time, researchers have restored some vision to people with a common type of eye disease by using a prosthetic retinal implant. If approved for broader use in the future, the treatment ...

The PRIMA system is a subretinal implant designed to restore central vision in GA patients by replacing failed photoreceptors. In a clinical trial, 81% of patients showed significant visual acuity ...

Rebooting the Eye To test this theory, the team injected an anesthetic called tetrodotoxin into the lazy eye of lab animals ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is an untreatable vision loss problem impacting those over 50. The disease starts as a thinning of the macula (the part of the retina responsible for detailed ...