The study focused on inherited retinal degenerations (IRDs), a group of genetic diseases that lead to progressive vision loss ...

Researchers at the University of Geneva, together with colleagues in Switzerland, France, the United States and Israel, describe how optogenetic control of brain cells and circuits is already steering ...

Steven Pittler, Ph.D., at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has sought to find modifier genes for the hereditary eye disorder retinitis pigmentosa type 59. After onset in one’s late teens, RP59 ...

After a long day at work, Jamie Smith expected to have a normal night at home with her two sons. But when she noticed her youngest son’s eyes shaking, she knew something was wrong. At 4 months old, ...

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, our eyes look to be victims of a low-gravity environments, too. According to new research published in the January 2016 issue of The FASEB Journal, two ...

New studies in rats suggest the drug reserpine, approved in 1955 for high blood pressure, might treat the blinding disease retinitis pigmentosa. No therapy exists for this rare inherited disease, ...

Combining artificial intelligence and genetics has allowed researchers to study the part of the eye that gives us sharp central vision in amazing detail for the first time. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

Researchers who work with tiny drug carriers known as lipid nanoparticles have developed a new type of material capable of reaching the lungs and the eyes, an important step toward genetic therapy for ...