Beacon Therapeutics may have found a guiding light in a disease area where other companies have stumbled with its laruparetigene zovaparvovec (laru-zova), a gene therapy that proved early improvements ...

A Johnson & Johnson gene therapy in development for an inherited vision-loss disorder has failed a Phase 3 study, the latest clinical research setback for a rare eye disease that so far has no ...

The most common types of color blindness, or color vision deficiency, are genetic. However, other types may develop due to injuries, eye diseases, health problems, and side effects of treatment.

A study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has revealed important insights into the genetics of deposits in the eye, known as reticular pseudodrusen (RPD), that are linked to ...

In cultured cells from affected individuals, the research team showed that this gene variant impairs the function of mitochondria—the "power plants" of cells. Impaired mitochondrial function is ...

Biology is never as straightforward as we learned in high school. Take sex-linked chromosomes as an example: we’re taught that biological males get XY chromosomes while biological females get two ...

There are three main types of color vision deficiency: red-green, blue-yellow, and complete. Color blindness, or color vision deficiency, affects the way you perceive color and can make it hard to ...