Bar Harbor, Maine– While studying mice with a mutant gene whose counterpart causes inherited glaucoma in humans, researchers have discovered a second gene mutation that worsens the structural eye ...

A coloboma is a missing piece of tissue in a person's eye. It is a congenital condition (meaning one you are born with) that can affect any part of the eye but is most common on the color part of the ...

Researchers from the National Eye Institute (NEI) have developed a gene therapy that rescues cilia defects in retinal cells affected by a type of Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a disease that ...

An opthalmologist, Zainab Akinbode, has advised Nigerians to desist from using substances such as breast milk and urine as remedies to treat eye defects. Dr. Akinbode said such practices could cause ...

A team of psychologists, bioengineers and neurologists from The University of Tokyo and Monash University in Australia has tested the possibility of using a qualia structure paradigm to understand ...