Colour vision deficiency encompasses a spectrum of inherited or acquired impairments that reduce the ability to distinguish between specific hues under normal lighting. Congenital forms arise from ...

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 ...

A 6-year-old girl with a rare inherited blindness regained vision through gene therapy, helping her see in low light again.

Genetics aren't necessarily destiny for those with mutations thought to always cause inherited blindness, a new study says. Fewer than 30% of people with these genetic variants wind up blind, even ...

CNN — (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 ...

Discover the extraordinary story of Pingelap, a remote island where a rare genetic mutation causes high rates of ...

The Ishihara Color Test is a widely used screening tool for color vision deficiency, especially red-green color blindness. It is striking how easily this difference can go unnoticed. A child learns ...

For decades, a genetic test that turned up a mutation linked to inherited blindness was treated as a verdict, not a risk factor. Families were told that certain variants meant vision loss was ...

People who are colorblind may be missing a life-saving warning sign of bladder cancer. Analysis of the electronic health records of hundreds of people found that those with color vision deficiency ...

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 ...