SANTA CLARITA, CA -- When 8-year-old Josh Murphy was in kindergarten, a vision test revealed his left eye was weaker than his right. More tests revealed he had amblyopia, or lazy eye, a common cause ...
Amblyopia, often called lazy eye, develops when the brain fails to receive balanced input from both eyes early in life. One eye becomes dominant, while the other lags behind. Standard care relies on ...
This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...