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.

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 ...

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 ...

The neurosensory retina is a complex ecosystem composed of precisely layered and diverse neurons, multiple vascular plexuses, and glial cells. It is here that visual signals from the environment are ...

Scientists studying the aging process in the eye have made an important discovery around the role of a so-called "youth" protein, and shown how it promotes a cellular recycling process that maintains ...

Research has for the first time identified the mode of death of cone photoreceptor cells in an animal model of retinitis pigmentosa. This groundbreaking study has further identified the receptor ...

To assess the correlation between macular morphology and visual acuity in retinitis pigmentosa (RP) patients with cystoid macular oedema (CME). Forty-one eyes of 25 RP patients with CME. Patients ...

Two species of small, deep-dwelling fish called pearlsides possess eye cells that break the rules of vertebrate vision, combining features of rods and cones into a single hybrid photoreceptor never ...

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

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

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 ...