The Washington Post reports on a new study in the journal Neuron that has found that taking away ones sight may enhance ones ability to hear. Scientists found that adult mice who were visually deprived compensated for the loss of visual cues in just one week by increasing neuronal firings in the auditory...

Choroideremia is an X-linked recessive disease that leads to blindness due to mutations in the CHM gene that prevents production of a protein necessary for seeing light, but a new study has found a potential therapy to treat the disease, The Associated Press reports. The findings are based on a study...

Reuters reports that Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’s “Eylea significantly improved vision in patients with diabetic macular edema (DME) compared to laser surgery in two late-stage clinical trials.” Eylea has been approved for use against wet age-related macular edema, but these results are...