N EW YORK — Surgeons have performed the world’s first transplant of an entire human eye, ... Normally, the optic nerve then would send those signals to the brain to be interpreted.

But transplanting the whole eye – the eyeball, its blood supply and the critical optic nerve that must connect it to the brain – is considered a moonshot in the quest to cure blindness ...

Left: Dr. Eduardo D. Rodriguez prepares Aaron James of Hot Springs, Arkansas, for the world’s first whole-eye transplant as part of a partial face transplant at NYU Langone in New York City, U.S ...

According to a new study, optic nerve lesions are evident in up to 40% of imaging studies in patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) of multiple sclerosis (MS), and the addition of the ...

For instance, the human retina contains more than 100 million photoreceptors in each eye, but only about 1 million RGCs, a difference that's hard to overcome — but not impossible.