Pictured is mouse optic nerve and retina, responsible for relaying information from the eye to the brain. The tissue has been fluorescently stained to reveal the distribution of astrocytes (yellow), ...

Retinitis pigmentosa retinal degeneration is caused by a family of hereditary mutations in nearly 100 genes that slowly lead to blindness over years or decades. One of those genes encodes the enzyme ...

Researchers have developed a soft artificial retina that helped blind mice respond to near-infrared light, a type of light normally invisible to mammals. The device sits on the surface of the ...