Neurologic and ocular birth defects occur in 7% of offspring of mothers located in French territories of the Americas who have lab-confirmed Zika virus infection, according to research published in ...

A study published Tuesday found that one-third of babies with a birth defect linked to the Zika virus also display eye abnormalities that could affect their vision. The 29 babies in the study were ...

A genetic mystery that has afflicted three unrelated families plagued by congenital eye malformations has now been solved by researchers. By mapping and sequencing family DNA, the research team found ...

A $1.9 million grant to Indiana University from the National Institutes of Health's National Eye Institute will advance basic research on the eye with applications to blindness caused by genetic ...

Shaili Patel had long been fascinated by science and engineering, so when she enrolled as an undergraduate at the University of Delaware she knew she wanted to pursue a STEM major of some type. All it ...

Researchers from the National Eye Institute (NEI) have developed a gene therapy that rescues cilia defects in retinal cells affected by a type of Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a disease that ...

Lagos State Government has said it had so far screened about 65,000 primary school pupils for eye defects and impairments under its School Health Programme. The screening according to the Commissioner ...

Within three days last week, no fewer than 200 residents with eye defects, especially cataract and glaucoma, benefitted from the humanitarian gesture of the Rotary Club of Agege (District 9110, ...