Less than 30% of people with certain genetic variants go blind, despite the faulty genes previously being thought to cause ...

For her entire life, college student Olivia Cook had only a small degree of central vision. It was as if she was watching the world through a straw hole, and in dimly lit places, she could not make ...

A new study challenges what's long been assumed about genetic variants thought to always cause inherited blindness.

Presence of inherited blindness gene does not guarantee vision loss. Only 28% of carriers develop disease, indicating other ...

A man born with Usher syndrome type 1b, a rare genetic disease that causes congenital deafness and progressive blindness, has reportedly experienced “substantial improvement” in his vision, after ...

An investigational gene therapy has shown promise for improving functional vision and restoring light detection in long-dormant rods and cones in the retina in adults and children with a rare form of ...

Cook was born with an inherited retinal disorder that causes blindness, a rare type of eye disorder historically called Leber congenital amaurosis or LCA. A few years ago, she decided to participate ...