A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics recently set out to investigate whether people who are blind gesture like sighted people when talking about the world, and how ...

I lost my sight gradually due to a genetic defect and if you've ever wondered what a blind person sees, this is by far one of ...

First, I wrote the book. Then, I decided I was going to narrate it. In my normal job as a voice actor I just read short ...

Before receiving the implant, it was like having two black discs in my eyes, with the outside distorted,” said Sheila Irvine, ...

“Where this dead retina was a complete blind spot, vision was restored,” Dr. Frank Holz, the study’s lead author and an ...

The device helped people with an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration, which affects about 1 million people in ...

An electronic retinal implant has improved vision in people with age-related macular degeneration—but it isn’t a full ...

Of the 38 patients with age-related macular degeneration, 80% were able to read again after having the eye implant and using ...