Neurologic and ocular birth defects occur in 7% of offspring of mothers located in French territories of the Americas who have lab-confirmed Zika virus infection, according to research published in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The estimate is based on data from nearly 6,800 births that occurred in the U.S. and its territories from ...

A genetic mystery that has afflicted three unrelated families plagued by congenital eye malformations has now been solved by researchers. By mapping and sequencing family DNA, the research team found ...

To investigate the clinical characteristics according to the location of focal lamina cribrosa (LC) defects and its associated ocular features. A total of 139 open-angle glaucoma patients underwent ...

Researchers from the National Eye Institute (NEI) have developed a gene therapy that rescues cilia defects in retinal cells affected by a type of Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a disease that ...

A study published Tuesday found that one-third of babies with a birth defect linked to the Zika virus also display eye abnormalities that could affect their vision. The 29 babies in the study were ...

A $1.9 million grant to Indiana University from the National Institutes of Health's National Eye Institute will advance basic research on the eye with applications to blindness caused by genetic ...

Lagos State Government has said it had so far screened about 65,000 primary school pupils for eye defects and impairments under its School Health Programme. The screening according to the Commissioner ...

Shaili Patel had long been fascinated by science and engineering, so when she enrolled as an undergraduate at the University of Delaware she knew she wanted to pursue a STEM major of some type. All it ...