An investigational gene therapy has shown promise for improving functional vision and restoring light detection in long-dormant rods and cones in the retina in adults and children with a rare form of ...

A 6-year-old girl with a rare inherited blindness regained vision through gene therapy, helping her see in low light again.

Genetics aren't necessarily destiny for those with mutations thought to always cause inherited blindness, a new study says. Fewer than 30% of people with these genetic variants wind up blind, even ...

Colour vision deficiency encompasses a spectrum of inherited or acquired impairments that reduce the ability to distinguish between specific hues under normal lighting. Congenital forms arise from ...

Discover the extraordinary story of Pingelap, a remote island where a rare genetic mutation causes high rates of ...

CNN — (CNN) — For her entire life, college student Olivia Cook had only a small degree of central vision. It was as if she was watching the world through a straw hole, and in dimly lit places, she ...

For decades, a genetic test that turned up a mutation linked to inherited blindness was treated as a verdict, not a risk factor. Families were told that certain variants meant vision loss was ...

The Ishihara Color Test is a widely used screening tool for color vision deficiency, especially red-green color blindness. It is striking how easily this difference can go unnoticed. A child learns ...

Genetics linked to vision loss don’t always cause blindness Fewer than 30% of people with genes linked to retinal degeneration wind up with vision loss or blindness The results call into question how ...