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“I’ve always been curious about how the retinal cells in the eye survive for decades in such a harsh environment,” says Nicolas Bazan, neuroscientist at Louisiana State University (LSU) Health New ...

Prevent Blindness Offers Free Educational Resources on AMD and Low Vision Including Patient and Expert Videos, Webpages, Fact Sheets and More -- CHICAGO , Jan. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Prevent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. USC Roski Eye Institute researchers are launching a phase 2b trial of a stem cell retinal implant designed to replace damaged ...

Central vision can fade slowly with age-related macular degeneration. Faces blur. Words smear on a page. A dark spot can sit in the middle of what you try to see. For many older Americans, that loss ...

USC researchers are testing a stem cell retinal implant for advanced dry macular degeneration, aiming to replace damaged cells and potentially restore vision rather than just slow disease progression.

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) once meant a slow, irreversible loss of vision, and many people still believe that's ...

In Editorial, The New England Journal of Medicine Calls Science Corporation's PRIMA Implant "The First Treatment to Restore Vision" In Patients Suffering From Advanced Geographic Atrophy Due to ...

ALAMEDA, Calif., January 14, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--An editorial published today in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) writes that Science Corporation’s PRIMA implant is the first treatment in ...

An international research team led by Prof. Dr. Sedat Nizamoğlu from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering ...