Stories about: blindness  

By using a groundbreaking new gene therapy

It could restore sight to thousands of patients each year

As well as other eye problems

After being ignored for half a century

NC State experts are devising the system

He spent three decades in the darkness

The treatment is most effective early in life

The ability is improved with training

The same holds true for body language too

German research teams lead the way

It can also benefit those with poor vision

They can now see lights

It's one of the leading causes of blindness in America

Neurons communicate via electric impulses

Some forms of the disease are not innate

Few of those sustaining a hit to their eye can then see

Touch-screens are the new hype, but inaccessible to the blind