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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The independent research group Science for the Masses based out of Tehachapi, Calif. hypothesized they could essentially inject night vision into a healthy human eye using Chlorin e6 (Ce6), a type of ...

NEW YORK — Scientists for the first time have used gene therapy to dramatically improve sight in people with a rare form of blindness, a development experts called a major advance for the experimental ...

This research study is being conducted by the Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (PI: Soojin Park, PhD; IRB# HIRB00000586) at the Homewood campus. Participants must be between the ages of 18 and 35 and ...

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

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