For decades, restoring sight after severe eye damage sat firmly in the realm of science fiction. Now a wave of converging ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. This story also starts a series ...

Scientists have developed a novel approach that allows stem cells to be turned into retinal ganglion cells that are capable of migrating and surviving in the eye's retina. This approach presents a ...

Using adaptive optics, scientists have identified elusive retinal ganglion cells in the eye's fovea that could explain how humans see red, green, blue, and yellow. Scientists have long wondered how ...

What if stem cells from extracted teeth could be used to save someone's vision after a terrible injury that caused them to lose their sight? That provocative premise fueled research from the U.K. that ...

Liang Li, Xue Feng, Fang Fang, David A. Miller, Shaobo Zhang, Pei Zhuang, Haoliang Huang, Pingting Liu, Junting Liu, Nripun Sredar, Liang Liu, Yang Sun, Xin Duan ...

Note: The video above shows a three-dimensional rotating view of three different cell types in the retina. The Campana cell (center) is shown flanked by two other cell classes that it is similar to, a ...