Optogenetics has long been a powerful experimental tool, but a growing body of research suggests it may now be approaching a ...

An electrical device implanted under the retina helps to restore some visual acuity to people with age-related macular degeneration. Scientists have used an eye implant to improve the vision of dozens ...

When Robin McCoy was 50, she was diagnosed with the disease that had taken her mother’s sight. McCoy had inherited a genetic mutation that causes retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a condition in which the ...

For the first time, an international research team led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has ...

Biomedical and genetic engineers at Duke University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have developed a technique that naturally increases the presence of a light-sensitive molecule ...

A team has re-engineered immune cells with a light-activated switch that modulates protein function and cellular behavior. When exposed to blue light, the cells change shape, infiltrating solid tumors ...

Immunotherapies that mobilize a patient’s own immune system to fight cancer have become a treatment pillar. These therapies, including chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, have performed ...