For decades, restoring sight after severe eye damage sat firmly in the realm of science fiction. Now a wave of converging ...

Jiarui Nie, a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institutes of Health, is exploring how gold nanoparticles injected into the eye can stimulate photo receptors People are constantly contacting ...

Mammals aren’t known for the ocular regenerative powers, but a new study shows that nature has a few tricks up its sleeve.

In a study published in the journal ACS Nano and supported by the National Institutes of Health, the research team showed that nanoparticles injected into the retina can successfully stimulate the ...

Millions of people suffer from retinal disorders, such as macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. A new study suggests that injecting gold nanoparticles into the retina and stimulating those ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists at USC are launching a new trial to test a tiny stem cell implant that could restore vision in people with ...

A groundbreaking study published in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on Monday demonstrates how specialized devices using artificial intelligence can help restore central vision to treat ...