In 1963, Richard Gregory and Jean Wallace from the University of Cambridge published a case study of a man, functionally blind since infancy, whose sight was restored in adulthood. The man, identified ...

BOSTON (Jan. 27, 2014) -- Deprivation of vision during critical periods of childhood development has long been thought to result in irreversible vision loss. Now, researchers from the Schepens Eye ...

Researchers have found in a new study that restoration of vision after prolonged congenital blindness leads to meaningful but ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

Congenital cataracts are the leading cause of treatable blindness in children worldwide. In nations where the surgery is widely available, surgery occurs during infancy and there is a good prognosis ...