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Featured Neuroscience

·July 14, 2010·3 min read

3 Blind Mice Could See? ipRGCs Help Rods and Cones with Image Formation

Mice without rods and cones were able to use ipRGCs to detect light and possibly form low acuity images.

Featured Neuroscience

·June 22, 2011·3 min read

Deconstructing Vision: Motion, Critical Windows and Curing Blindness in India

What if blind eyes could see? What does that mean? That’s the question neuroscientist Pawan Sinha and his team at...

Featured Genetics Neurology

·February 8, 2012·4 min read

Gene Therapy for Inherited Blindness Succeeds in Patients’ Other Eye

In three adults, repeat dose safely improves vision. Gene therapy for congenital blindness has taken another step forward, as researchers...

Featured Neuroscience

·April 3, 2012·4 min read

Positive Stress Helps Protect Eye from Glaucoma

Working in mice, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have devised a treatment that prevents the...

Featured Genetics Neuroscience Neuroscience Videos

·April 18, 2012·3 min read

Photoreceptor Transplant Restores Vision in Mice

Scientists from the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology have shown for the first time that transplanting light-sensitive photoreceptors into the eyes...

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·May 14, 2012·6 min read

New Type of Retinal Prosthesis Could Better Restore Sight to Blind

Using tiny solar-panel-like cells surgically placed underneath the retina, scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a...

Events Featured Genetics

·May 24, 2012·4 min read

Workshop to Examine Optogenetic Approaches for Treating Diseases Associated With Vision Loss Announced

Foundation Fighting Blindness and Mass. Eye and Ear Host June 1 Optogenetics Workshop to Fast-Track Innovative Approaches to Save and...

Electrophysiology Neuroethics

·June 4, 2012·2 min read

Neuroscientists Explore Innovative Way to Help People Who are Blind

When people close their eyes, they can form mental images of things that exist only in their minds. Neuroscientists studying...

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·July 25, 2012·4 min read

Chemical Makes Blind Mice See

A team of University of California, Berkeley, scientists in collaboration with researchers at the University of Munich and University of Washington, in Seattle, has discovered a chemical that temporarily restores some vision to blind mice, and is working on an improved compound that may someday allow people with degenerative blindness to see again.