Authored by: Armaan Vaswani Art by: Vanessa Chen Hsieh Inherited eye disorders (IEDs) are the leading cause of progressive vision loss and blindness worldwide. Some common IEDs, such as retinal degeneration and macular degeneration, develop very gradually. As a result, patients are often not diagnosed until much later in life, making lifestyle changes and modifications both sudden and difficult. Recently, researchers at the Harvard Ocular Genomics Institute developed a new genetic test for...