When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Color blindness is known to be more common in males. That comes down to the genetics of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Less than 30% of people with certain genetic variants go blind, despite the faulty genes previously being thought to cause ...

CNN — (CNN) — For her entire life, college student Olivia Cook had only a small degree of central vision. It was as if she was watching the world through a straw hole, and in dimly lit places, she ...

A new study challenges what's long been assumed about genetic variants thought to always cause inherited blindness. Investigators from Mass General Brigham used large public biobanks to determine that ...

A research team at the WVU is studying how to restore vision in people who develop a form of inherited blindness. Visvanathan Ramamurthy, professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry and ...

Genetics aren't necessarily destiny for those with mutations thought to always cause inherited blindness, a new study says. Fewer than 30% of people with these genetic variants wind up blind, even ...