vision

Renewing the aging gut microbiome holds promise for preventing inflammatory brain and eye degeneration.

The prolific science communicator specialized in studies of vision and brain plasticity and was the focus of threats from animal rights extremists for several years.

The fish species is separated from mammals by hundreds of millions of years of evolution, yet its seemingly primitive brain can handle many of the same elaborate visual tasks.

Contrary to what researchers had assumed, Egyptian fruit bats don’t rely solely on sight to orient themselves as they drink and forage for food in daylight. 

With the help of special glasses that interface with electrodes embedded in her brain, Berna Gomez was able to read letters and distinguish shapes for the first time in 16 years.

Spontaneous waves of nerve impulses flowing across the retina help mouse pups practice motion detection for when they eventually open their eyes.

After receiving an intraocular injection of the gene for a light-sensitive protein, a 58-year-old man diagnosed with the neurodegenerative eye disease retinitis pigmentosa was able to locate objects on a table using engineered goggles.

Researchers insert functioning cone photoreceptors into the retinas of mice with advanced eye disease, improving their vision.

The roundworm uses cues from visible light to help avoid eating toxic bacteria with a distinguishing hue.

Insects wearing 3-D glasses detect computer-generated prey.

The patient’s vision has improved since the procedure, and her cornea remains clear.

A trial is recruiting patients to test the gene-editing technology’s ability to treat an inherited form of blindness caused by a mutation in the CEP290 gene.

Advanced single-cell optogenetic tools have enabled researchers to induce a learned behavior in mice without the associated visual cue.

The UCLA ophthalmologist worked to combat blindness in underserved communities.

The silver spinyfin has an extraordinary diversity of rod photopigments, which researchers propose may allow it to see color in the deep, dark sea.

Neural networks generate abstract images designed to activate particular cells, lending insight into their function.

Researchers injected the retinas of mice with nanoparticles that bound to photoreceptors and converted near-infrared light to green light that the animals could see.

Blind rats are made to see after sheets of cells implanted into their eyes make themselves at home.