When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Color blindness is known to be more common in males. That comes down to the genetics of the ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

Our brains have the amazing ability to gather information and interpret it. This ability to gather and interpret – or perceive – is a big part of what helps humans see colors. Our eyes have tiny cones ...

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 ...

Genetics linked to vision loss don’t always cause blindness Fewer than 30% of people with genes linked to retinal degeneration wind up with vision loss or blindness The results call into question how ...

Recently, my Ohio State University Extension colleague Katie Schlagheck shared her family’s journey with color blindness in an article for the OSU Extension Live Healthy Live Well Blog at ...

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 ...