Eight systems and organizations have partnered on research to cure total blindness through whole-eye transplantation. The effort — led by the primary award recipient, University of Colorado Anschutz ...

As part of a national “moonshot” to cure blindness, researchers at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus will receive as much as $46 million in federal funding over the next five years to pursue a ...

THE WOODLANDS, TX / ACCESSWIRE / April 30, 2024 / Mesogen Inc. out of The Woodlands, Texas, has developed a transplantable Retinal Pigmented Epithelium (RPE) patch to cure Macular Degeneration ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Case Western Reserve University is hoping to offer the first therapy for an inherited eye disease leading to blindness. Shigemi Matsuyama, an associate professor of ophthalmology and ...

Photo credit: The Future of Eye Care: How AI is Changing Ophthalmology Introduction On Wednesday, the 11 th of June 2025, Research and Innovation Agenda hosted Dr. Paul Owusu Donkor, a Senior Lecturer ...

AURORA, Colo. — More than 1 million Americans are blind, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and millions more have vision loss. Researchers at the University of Colorado ...

Foundation Fighting Blindness has granted public access to de-identified 4-year data from individuals participating in RUSH2A, an ongoing natural history study for patients with mutations in the USH2A ...

A group of scientists, including doctors at NYU Langone, hopes to make a quantum leap in vision restoration with a multimillion-dollar study aimed at giving sight to the blind. The goal is lofty: to ...

You may have recently seen headlines about a project to send cancer cells to space, neural networks predicting kids' intelligence from MRI scans, and research about how the brain could integrate ...

LAKE COUNTY, Ill. (WGN) — Proposed federal funding cuts are hitting home in Lake County, especially when it comes to the blind. The Foundation Fighting Blindness, a Maryland-based non-profit ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The first patient has been treated in Britain in a pioneering trial of a new treatment co-developed by Pfizer and derived from embryonic stem cells designed for patients with a ...