Meetings between donor families and those who receive organ or tissue transplants are rare, but when families meet, it can be a very emotional experience. As it was when Art Durshimer and his wife, ...

Vision loss has long been treated as a one-way street, a devastating endpoint rather than a problem the brain might quietly work to solve. A wave of research is now overturning that assumption, ...

For more than a century, neuroscience textbooks have treated damaged neurons in the adult central nervous system as a dead end, especially in the delicate circuitry that carries visual information ...

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The PRIMA system is a subretinal implant designed to restore central vision in GA patients by replacing failed photoreceptors ...

For the first time, researchers have restored some vision to people with a common type of eye disease by using a prosthetic retinal implant. If approved for broader use in the future, the treatment ...

Rebooting the Eye To test this theory, the team injected an anesthetic called tetrodotoxin into the lazy eye of lab animals ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is an untreatable vision loss problem impacting those over 50. The disease starts as a thinning of the macula (the part of the retina responsible for detailed ...

A wild snow leopard found injured and unable to see has had its vision restored after Chinese veterinarians removed a cataract in what they say is a world-first surgical procedure. Linghan, a snow ...

An illustration of ESA's "dark universe detective" spacecraft Euclid, which is ready for full science mode. The Euclid "dark universe" probe's ailing vision has been restored after an experimental ...