For the first time, scientists have managed to restore central vision loss from an irreversible age-related eye condition via ...

Gold, laser goggles, and a camera: it’s an unlikely combination that could one day be used to restore vision in people with retinal damage, according to researchers. In a new study published in the ...

Progressively losing your vision as you get older sucks, thankfully researchers are working on a solution that could ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Science Corporation Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the leading causes ...

Today, in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers announced that they restored some vision to elderly patients with a common eye disease thanks to an electronic retinal implant. Age-related ...

A small wireless chip and a pair of smart glasses are offering new hope to people who thought they’d never read again. The groundbreaking device, called PRIMA, has partially restored vision in people ...

The device could help a million people with a severe form of macular degeneration to be able to see enough to read. By Gina Kolata For the first time, researchers restored some vision to people with a ...

Imagine slowly losing the center of your vision, like a camera lens fading to fog. That's what happens with geographic atrophy, a severe form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). It's the ...

A team from Fudan University, the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and Shaoxin Laboratory, all in China, has developed a retinal ...

Injecting a fatty acid that is used to make very long fat molecules into the eyes of elderly mice improved their vision for up to a month, indicating that the natural compound could potentially be ...

Participants received retinal implants that restored some of their vision. Zorica Nastasic via Getty Images Today, in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers announced that they restored some ...

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 ...