From bionic eyes to cell and gene therapies in clinical therapies, it's an exciting time for emerging technologies aiming to treat blindness and the visually impaired.

Researchers have identified a new type of visual cell in deep-sea fish larvae that challenges a century of knowledge about ...

During most eye infections or injuries, neutrophils, immune cells found in the blood, are usually the first line of defense. However, researchers at the Flaum Eye Institute and Del Monte Institute for ...

Zebrafish are known to detect color and brightness with the pineal gland, which is part of the brain. How they do so is now being elucidated. We see color because photoreceptor cones in our eyes ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . BlueRock Therapeutics is preparing to initiate a phase 1/2a clinical study of OpCT-001. OpCT-001 will be ...

Brown University researchers have found a new cell in the eye that acts as a photoreceptor – like a rod or cone – and sets the body’s circadian clock. Brown University researchers have found a new ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...

Research reveals how close human vision comes to sensing the smallest possible unit of light. Here’s why that matters for perception.

Get a closer look at the biotech ophthalmology landscape to discover exactly how companies are approaching the treatment of eye diseases.

Thyroid hormone and Vitamin A transform blue eye cells into red and green ones. This transition builds the eye’s center, ...