Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Retinal implants have a history of challenges, and questions remain about their utility. A bioengineered RPE ...

Dry age-related macular degeneration is the most common form of the disease, affecting millions of older Americans, according to the National Eye Institute. The condition develops ...

Vision is one of the most crucial human senses, yet more than 300 million people worldwide are at risk of vision loss due to various retinal diseases. While recent advancements in retinal disease ...

An experimental eye implant could be the secret to restoring a patient's central vision—the part of our eye that lets us see faces, details, and letters more clearly. Many patients now using the ...

Imagine slowly losing the center of your vision, like a camera lens fading to fog. That's what happens with geographic atrophy, a severe form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). It's the ...

A tiny chip the size of a grain of sand implanted in the back of the eye can effectively restore vision loss, scientists reveal. Measuring just 2mm x 2mm, the 'pioneering' implant is paired with a ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is an untreatable vision loss problem impacting those over 50. The disease starts as a thinning of the macula (the part of the retina responsible for detailed ...

Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it's like. Brent Chapman can see again after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese researchers have reportedly made a breakthrough in artificial vision technology using a rare mineral called tellurium.

Brent Chapman can see again after doctors pulled out one of his teeth, flattened it, drilled a hole in it, placed a lens inside and implanted the tooth in one of his eyes. It seems bizarre, but the ...