A breakthrough treatment has allowed damaged retinal cells to regenerate themselves. The current research has been conducted on mice, but the pathways are the same in humans, which opens hope for a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Bilal Haider, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Despite the nursery ...

A new study has revealed that the brain can recover lost vision after injury by creating new neural pathways rather than regenerating damaged cells. In this surprising discovery, scientists found that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The animal kingdom is full of examples of species that can fully regenerate their vision, but unfortunately, humans are not among ...

A team of scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has developed an eye drop that successfully slowed vision loss in mice with an inherited eye disease. In mice both with retinitis ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) -- As we get older, we all face the risk of age-related macular degeneration. There is no cure. But local scientists are setting their sights on outer space and some high-flying ...

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 ...