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 ...

For generations, adults with amblyopia were told their vision loss was permanent, a childhood problem that medicine could not ...

Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can't go back in time to study the environmental pressures ...

The unprecedented study involves using the gene-editing technique CRISPR to edit a gene while it's still inside a patient's body. In exclusive... Blind Patients Hope Landmark Gene-Editing Experiment ...

Imagine you are looking at a manhole cover a few paces away on the street. It looks circular, but this is because of some impressive perceptual machinery in your mind. The pattern of light in your eye ...

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 ...

The film explores the properties of light, including reflection and refraction, through various experiments. It demonstrates how light travels in straight lines, how mirrors can reflect images, and ...

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