For generations, adults with amblyopia were told their vision loss was permanent, a childhood problem that medicine could not ...

In a first, doctors injected the gene-editing tool CRISPR directly into cells in patients' eyes. The experiment helped these vision-impaired... A Gene-Editing Experiment Let These Patients With Vision ...

Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can't go back in time to study the environmental pressures ...

The unprecedented study involves using the gene-editing technique CRISPR to edit a gene while it's still inside a patient's body. In exclusive... Blind Patients Hope Landmark Gene-Editing Experiment ...

Scientists studying the aging process in the eye have made an important discovery around the role of a so-called "youth" protein, and shown how it promotes a cellular recycling process that maintains ...

Carlene Knight's vision was so bad that she couldn't even maneuver around the call center where she works using her cane. "I was bumping into the cubicles and really scaring people that were sitting ...

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