Doctors injected a clear gel (HPMC) into the eye of patients every three to four weeks for ten months. Previous treatments ...

Science is giving sight, sound, and speech a second chance. How might it change the way we age?

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 ...

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 ...

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 retinal implant developed by Science Corp. has for the first time restored some functional vision to patients with a severe form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a common eye disease and ...