A gene therapy that targets a form of retinitis pigmentosa showed a signal to improve retinal function for up to 3 years after treatment, according to a small clinical trial. The phase 2 SKYLINE trial ...

A treatment that targets dysfunctional photoreceptors regardless of the underlying genetic mutation leads to improved ...

Xiuqian Mu, MD, PhD, professor of ophthalmology at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has received additional funding from the National Eye Institute for his research on retinal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Retinal reserve is the retina’s remaining functional capacity to maintain vision despite underlying stress and ...

There’s an old saying, attributed to writers from Cicero to Shakespeare, that says the eyes are the windows to the soul. But it may be more accurate to say that your eyes, and in particular your ...

Optometric care has advanced significantly with OCT and high-resolution retinal imaging, yet clinicians still encounter a ...

Cedars-Sinai investigators working to optimize a cell-based treatment for retinitis pigmentosa have uncovered how transplanted neural stem cells interact with host retinal cells to preserve vision.

A study on ground squirrels shows, not only do mitochondria produce bioenergy in the cone-shaped photoreceptors in the retina of the eye, they also act as micro-lenses that redirect light to the ...

The retina is a multilayered neural tissue that performs the initial stages of visual processing by transforming light into neural signals and organising them into parallel information channels. Six ...

Neural tissue normally dies quickly without oxygen. Yet bird retinas—among the most energy-demanding tissues in the animal kingdom—function permanently without it. This may be relevant in future ...