Medical research

Eye's recycling process key to seeing color, bright light

As many of us learned in high school science class, the retina's rods and cones allow us to see. Rods are for night vision, and cones operate in bright light and allow us to distinguish colors. But although scientists have ...

Ophthalmology

Bionic eye helps UK pensioner see in world first

A partially sighted British pensioner has had most of his vision restored thanks to a "bionic eye"—a device that converts video images from a miniature camera installed in his glasses to his brain.

Ophthalmology

Team develops novel gene therapy for achromatopsia

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Michigan State University presented new preclinical data this week that evaluates the efficacy of a gene therapy treatment for achromatopsia, a rare inherited retinal disease ...

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