Of all the remarkable things done to mice over the years, this latest achievement, described today in the science journal Cell, is among the most sci-fi. A research team, led by Tian Xue from the ...

Lasik, lenses, and glasses address vision problems directly through the eyes, but now scientists have found a way around blurry vision by doing something to the brain instead. A mild 20-minute zap ...

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A few years ago I posted a column about a rather amazing color vision experiment (Click Here to see my original column). I’m now a little closer to recreating this, but I could still use a little help ...

For the first time, scientists are reporting they restored vision to people blinded by a rare genetic disorder by infusing the revolutionary gene-editing technique directly into cells inside the body.

Carlene Knight's vision was so bad that she couldn't even maneuver around the call center where she works using her cane. "I was bumping into the cubicles and really scaring people that were sitting ...

In a first, doctors injected the gene-editing tool CRISPR directly into cells in patients' eyes. The experiment helped these vision-impaired... A Gene-Editing Experiment Let These Patients With Vision ...