When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Color blindness is known to be more common in males. That comes down to the genetics of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Less than 30% of people with certain genetic variants go blind, despite the faulty genes previously being thought to cause ...

Researchers from Radboud University Medical Center and University of Basel have discovered new genetic causes of inherited blindness. Their study, published in Nature Genetics, shows that changes in ...

In patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), crucial cells in the retina known as rods and cones die over time; night blindness eventually sets in; tunnel vision follows; and some individuals become ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Researchers at the University of Oklahoma are advancing the fight against inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) with new genetic research that aims to improve diagnoses and lay the ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. This marks the first story ...

New findings from researchers at Mass Eye and Ear, a member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, indicate that rare genetic diseases like inherited retinal degenerations are not monogenetic ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

Researchers from Radboud university medical center and University of Basel have discovered new genetic causes of inherited blindness. Their study shows that changes in specific pieces of DNA, which ...

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 ...

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 ...