Scientists and engineers are 3D printing all types of objects these days, including eyes: A group of eye specialists and eye-care providers from the Netherlands has used 3D-printing technology to ...

Each year hundreds of children are born legally blind because of a genetic disorder that degrades their retinas. Though some can distinguish between light and dark early on, a defect in their AIPL1 ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — When she was 6 or 7, Mona Minkara’s eyesight began to fade. Eventually diagnosed with macular degeneration and cone rod dystrophy, the post-doctoral research fellow in the ...

Toddlers who were born with the most severe form of childhood blindness can now see after groundbreaking gene therapy ...