Patients who have lost their sight due to some degenerative eye conditions may someday have their vision restored thanks to a new device developed by experts at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Gene therapy strategies to prevent and treat inherited diseases of the retina that can cause blindness have progressed rapidly.

Two blind men have received sight for the first time in years due to new advances in medical science.

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For the first time, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have made early retina structures containing proliferating neuroretinal progenitor cells using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells derived from human blood.