New research shows smoking changes how key eye cells control genes, helping explain why smokers face a much higher risk of ...

Every year, thousands of people are blinded suddenly, like Durst, by injuries to their cornea, the dome-shaped lenses that cap each iris. These injuries are often debilitating. In the weeks after his ...

Researchers use single-cell analysis to show how transplanted neural stem cells interact with the retina to preserve vision in retinitis pigmentosa.

In a new study published in Cell Death & Disease, a team of researchers from the University of Michigan found functional mitochondria are key to the recovery of dying photoreceptor cells. Apoptosis is ...

Scientists found immune cells (resident macrophages) help regulate eye pressure by keeping the eye’s drainage system clear.

For patients with severe corneal injuries, blindness has often been seen as a life sentence. But a new eye stem cell transplant may change that. Scientists at Massachusetts Eye and Ear have ...

When the eye's drainage system clogs, pressure builds up and causes damage. The pressure can lead to glaucoma and vision loss. New research, published in the journal Immunity, reveals that a ...

Researchers working as part of the University of Georgia's Regenerative Bioscience Center have developed a new way to identify and sort stem cells that may one day allow clinicians to restore vision ...

Could bacteria replace your eye drops? Mice study says maybe In A Nutshell Researchers engineered a naturally occurring eye bacterium to secrete an anti-inflammatory healing protein directly on the ...

Through a series of experiments supported by the National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) researchers say ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Eye disease has been a part of DeAnna Moore’s life for as long as she can remember. She was diagnosed with limbal stem cell deficiency and underwent a life-changing ...