Vision loss has long been treated as a one-way street, a devastating endpoint rather than a problem the brain might quietly ...

Scientists have found that an existing drug, already used in humans to treat alcohol use disorder, could help restore vision lost to conditions like age-related macular degeneration and retinitis ...

For more than a century, neuroscience textbooks have treated damaged neurons in the adult central nervous system as a dead end, especially in the delicate circuitry that carries visual information ...

When one eye is deprived of vision early in life, it can lead to amblyopia, a condition more commonly known as lazy eye. This happens because a lack of input disrupts synapse formation in the brain's ...

A clinical trial is investigating whether a stem cell-derived patch can replace disease-damaged cells and restore vision. Age-related macular degeneration is a steadily worsening eye disease and the ...

The case marks the first time sight has been partially restored using optogenetics, a type of biological research aimed at controlling nerve cells via light. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece starts a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

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Technologies to compensate for limited sight have come a long way from the invention of Braille in the 1800s, but scientists are hoping to still take this a step further and restore vision altogether.

It was a sunny day in Kyiv, Ukraine when Oleksandr Popruzhenko, a 20-year-old senior lieutenant in the Ukrainian army, was training a group of 15 soldiers on the proper way to lob a grenade. Shortly ...

Our visual system is complex, with photoreceptors that pick up incoming light and at least three types of neurons between those and the brain. Once in the brain, visual input is interpreted by ...