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Totally blind mice have had their sight restored by injections of light-sensing cells into the eye, UK researchers report.

A blind firearms enthusiast can have his gun collection back, a New Jersey judge ruled Friday, in the latest development of what has become an ongoing Second Amendment rights saga.

A blind British writer failed to notice her pen had run out of ink while writing 26 pages of a book, but her lost words were recovered by police forensic staff.

Two legally blind women appeared to gain some vision after receiving an experimental treatment using embryonic stem cells, scientists reported Monday....

A gene in algae may make it possible to cure blindness in humans.

A part of the eye that is essential for vision has been created in the laboratory from animal stem cells, offering hope to the blind and partially sighted.

A new iPhone application is designed to help blind people identify United States currency in real time by speaking the denomination aloud.

Dozens of people who were blinded or otherwise suffered severe eye damage when they were splashed with caustic chemicals had their sight restored ...

Scientists in Newcastle use a stem cell technique to repair the vision of a man partially blinded in an ammonia attack.

Down under in Australia, down underground, scientists have found 850 previously unknown species living in subterranean water, caves and micro-caverns.