Teacher Amy Walker and 6-year-old Serenity Cooper playfully worked on foundational kindergarten skills using the nursery rhymes “Itsy Bitsy Spider” and “Five Little Monkeys.” Walker is a Covered ...

ASHEVILLE – The last thing Joseph Rehmatullah wanted to do when he immigrated to America was to be reliant on government assistance. Despite becoming blind after contracting measles as a 5-year-old, ...

The case marks the first time sight has been partially restored using optogenetics, a type of biological research aimed at controlling nerve cells via light. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, ...

Imagine that you have low vision and you’re completing an online job application using screen reader software. You get through half the form and then come to a question with drop-down options the ...

Smart glasses that use a technique similar to a bat's echolocation could help blind and low-vision people navigate their surroundings, according to researchers. ustralian researchers have developed ...

In some forms of blindness, certain parts of the eye still work but damage to light-sensitive cells disrupts vision. Now, researchers at a company called Nanoscope have used gene therapy to bypass ...

This story is part 5 of an occasional series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection of interventions that restore to normal ...

Filmmaker Rodney Evans is still making movies, despite having lost much of his vision. His new documentary is about how he and three other blind or visually impaired artists continue to do their work.

Imagine that you have low vision and you’re completing an online job application using screen reader software. You get through half the form and then come to a question with drop-down options the ...