A groundbreaking new procedure has restored the vision of 14 people with blinding cornea injuries in one eye. To treat this, ...

Revolutionary retinal implant restores central vision in 80% of patients with advanced macular degeneration, offering hope where treatments once only slowed blindness.

Blindness profoundly affects people's lives. Around the world, several laboratories, including the Biomedical ...

Scientists have created an advanced visual neuroprosthesis that communicates bidirectionally with the brain, marking one of ...

A retinal implant the size of a strawberry seed co-created by a University of Pittsburgh researcher has helped partially ...

A Connecticut boy is among four children all born with severe childhood blindness who gained “life-changing improvements” to their vision after an experimental trial of gene therapy. Jace was just ...

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 ...

Last year, Wentai Liu watched as surgeons implanted a microchip he had designed into the eye of a blind patient. For Liu, a professor of electrical engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at ...

Blind Iowans protest policy changes at the Iowa Department for the Blind Tuesday. Blind Iowans marched outside of the Iowa Department for the Blind in Des Moines Tuesday as they protested changes to a ...

O n Nov. 10, our agency and community lost a true champion for people who are blind and visually impaired. Tyco Swick, who led the Sight Center of Northwest Pennsylvania for an incredible 46 years, ...