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Researchers have developed eye drops that extend vision in animal models of a group of inherited diseases that lead to progressive vision loss in humans, known as retinitis pigmentosa.

This previously untreatable genetic disorder, which affects some two to three of every 10 million newborn babies, leads to ...

For most people, their ears are able to process these wide-ranging sounds and make sense of them. However, scientists don't have a full sense of why this happens because they are still working to ...

Treatment shows potential to slow the progression of human degenerative eye diseases, including retinitis pigmentosa.

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Researchers successfully pulled off the first eye stem cell transplants to help heal cornea damage, and the results speak for ...

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“So we’ve kind of overlooked this potential area of visual signaling and visual communication, primarily because it’s not something that our own eyes perceive.” Though birds-of-paradise ...