Scientists for the first time have used gene therapy to dramatically improve sight in people with a rare form of blindness, a development experts called a major advance for the experimental technique.
Elimination of blinding trachoma is entirely possible by 2020, says the New England Journal of Medicine.
NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by its Great Observatories to the fingertips of the blind.
A once-blind dog can now see to chase squirrels to her heart's content, thanks to the new plastic cornea she received in a novel surgery.
Studies of the brains of blind persons whose sight was partially restored later in life have produced a compelling example of the brain's ability to adapt to new circumstances and rewire and ...
... in Switzerland, headed by Dr. Botond Roska, isolated these genes and introduced them into the eyes of blind mice. What they observed was a dramatic behavioral change that proved the mice had regained ...
... of incoming light —makes the circadian clock blind to light, yet leaves normal vision intact ... makes the mouse circadian clock completely blind to light," says Hatori, "but these mice can still perform ...
... the disease. The Geisinger study found that patients with giant cells are far more prone to blindness compared to patients without these cells.
The study also found that patients with giant cells ...
... a third sensor -- cells expressing a photopigment called melanopsin that measures the intensity of incoming light -- makes the circadian clock blind to light, yet leaves normal vision intact.
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 ...
... Web text on any computer with speakers or a headphone connection.
"This is for situations where someone who's blind can't use their own computer but still wants access to the Internet. At a museum, ...
... s lives, such as a new sonar device to help the blind navigate their environment.
This news release highlights ... for Ranging Errors 8) A Sonar System for the Blind 9) Taking Aural Cues from Flipper ...
(AP) -- Blind people generally use computers with the help of screen-reader software, but those products can cost ... cafes. Now a free new Web-based program for the blind aims to improve the situation. ...
... a further important aspect to our current knowledge of the processes leading to senile blindness. For the first time, they have been able to show that in the case of patients with AMD their entire ...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- The U.S Environmental Protection Agency has turned a "blind eye" to Florida's Everglades cleanup efforts, while the state is violating its own commitment to restore ...
