Sightseeing: Adaptive optics could peer deep into damaged eyes for earlier diagnoses
The earlier diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration and glaucoma—the three most prevalent diseases causing blindness—can be diagnosed, the more successfully they can be treated.
Vision Quest: Retinal Implants Deliver the Promise of Sight to Damaged Eyes
Emerging technologies successfully stimulate retinas ravaged by retinitis pigmentosa, age-related macular degeneration and other diseases to give sufferers a new lease on light
Monday Pets – Back to Basics: Visual Cognition (Here’s one for the cat people)
Vision is arguably our most (consciously) utilized sensory system, so its pretty important to figure out how it works. And it's what David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel set out to investigate starting in the late 1950s.
Loci Color: Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blindness in Adult Monkeys
A treatment that appears safe and effective in treating natural color-blindness in monkeys might just lead to colorizing the world for similarly afflicted people, along with restoring sight to those with other retinal diseases
Color Vision: How Our Eyes Reflect Primate Evolution
Analyses of primate visual pigments show that our color vision evolved in an unusual way and that the brain is more adaptable than generally thought
Designer Focuses on Marketing Adjustable Eyeglasses at $1 a Pair
Corrective specs with liquid lenses could help millions of the world's poor see better, but challenges remain
Blind Ambition: Getting at the Root of Vision Problems
Scientists honored for research on the roles of genes and proteins on vision
A Visionary Approach Using Stem Cells to Repair Eye Damage
New eye research center in India aims to fix visual impairments with the help of stem cells
Sitting Too Close to the Computer Screen Can Make You Go Blind
Eyestrain is a common—and occasionally debilitating—effect of staring at screens
Windows on the Mind: Video Supplement
Now You See It: Expanding the Visible Color Spectrum
Researchers engineer mice to see the world as humans do, provide clues to how primate vision evolved
Creating Surfaces That Can Absorb All Light
A new technique that makes a surface completely nonreflective could improve solar panels and even home lighting systems.