blindness

As many as 1 in 33 people may meet the criteria for face blindness: 1 in 108 have major prosopagnosia whereas 1 in 47 have mild prosopagnosia. Face blindness, a mystifying condition that can trick us into believing we recognize people we've…

<!-- -->The case against Twitter was brought by the family of a victim of a 2017 attack by ISIS. (File)Washington: Twitter was accused in the US Supreme Court Wednesday of closing its eyes to the ISIS group as judges struggled to…

Combining a map of gene regulatory sites with disease-associated loci has uncovered a new genetic risk factor of adult-onset macular degeneration (AMD), according to a new study publishing January 17 in the open access journal PLOS Biology…

Glaucoma is the second most common cause of blindness worldwide and is a group of eye disorders that can lead to vision loss by damaging the optic nerveGlaucoma is the second most common cause of blindness worldwide and is a group of eye…

Oregon State University College of Pharmacy scientists have demonstrated in animal models the possibility of using lipid nanoparticles and messenger RNA, the technology underpinning COVID-19 vaccines, to treat blindness associated with a…

Blinding eye diseases like macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and glaucoma are accompanied by the death of neurons in the retina that leads to blindness. Although several strategies are being investigated for restoring sight to the…

Childhood cataracts are caused by malnutrition, low birth weight, neonatal complications such as hypoglycemia and hypophosphatemia, intrauterine infections such as rubella, and genetic variations. If one looks closely, all of these entities…

Researchers at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH) have grown 'mini eyes', which make it possible to study and better understand the development of blindness in a rare genetic disease called Usher syndromefor the…

FDA recalls ANOTHER batch of hand sanitizers over deadly contamination: Gels that've been on shelves since June 2020 found to contain toxin that can cause seizures or blindnessTwenty batches have been recalled by Colorado-based…

Adults with a genetic form of childhood-onset blindness experienced striking recoveries of night vision within days of receiving an experimental gene therapy, according to researchers at the Scheie Eye Institute in the Perelman School of…