A patient who underwent the world's first whole-eye and partial-face transplant has healed astonishingly well more than a ...

A new gene therapy has restored vision in patients with Leber congenital amaurosis type I (LCA1), a rare genetic condition ...

The illness is caused by mutations in the GUCY2D gene, which is critical to producing proteins that enable vision. People ...

"Last year, for a lot of people was a dark and miserable year, but for me ... gene therapy on his left eye, and will need to wait a couple of months to see if this further improves his vision.

Myopia is a huge problem and only getting worse. Honor's AI defocus tech aims to fix the problem by starting at the root of ...

In an early phase trial, gene therapy showed an ability to restore function to rods and cones as well as functional vision ...

Research suggests that doctors can help patients reduce pain by giving them virtual reality games to play during medical ...

Perhaps more than any other sport, distance running requires athletes to push their limits. Ever since Pheidippides, the ...

The vision of people with a rare inherited condition that causes them to lose much of their sight early in childhood was 100 times better after they received gene therapy to address the genetic ...

Bothnia dystrophy is a form of hereditary blindness, prevalent in the region Västerbotten in Sweden. A new study at Karolinska Institutet published in Nature Communications shows that gene therapy can ...