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Telescope Technology Used to Take First Accurate Images of Glaucoma-Related Eye Structure

October 15, 2019

Indiana University optometry researchers took the first undistorted images of the eye's trabecular meshwork using methods ori...

The Birth of Vision, from the Retina to the Brain

September 10, 2019

By decoding the genetic mechanisms that control the neurons of the visual system, researchers at UNIGE are unveiling the firs...

Motion Perception of Large Objects Gets Worse during Infant Development

September 9, 2019

Why do we lose the "superior" ability to perceive large objects' motion during development?

Retina-On-A-Chip Provides Powerful Tool for Studying Eye Disease

August 29, 2019

New technology that recreates some of the complexity of the human retina may help scientists study eye disease and screen for...

Nanoparticles Could Someday Give Humans Built-In Night Vision

August 28, 2019

Scientists have used nanoparticles to confer a real superpower on ordinary mice: the ability to see near-infrared light...

Scientists Develop Technology to Give Night Vision to Mammals

March 4, 2019

The technology allows animals to see light beyond the visible spectrum, into the range of infrared light

New Gene Therapy for Vision Loss Proven Safe in Humans, Clinical Trial Shows

May 18, 2017

The treatment is an exciting new approach in which a virus, similar to the common cold, but altered in the lab so that it is ...

Unproven Stem Cell 'Therapy' Blinds Three Patients at Florida Clinic

March 17, 2017

After three patients were blinded following a treatment marketed as a stem cell clinical trial, Stanford ophthalmologist Jeff...

Scientists Deploy CRISPR to Preserve Photoreceptors in Mice

March 16, 2017

Gene-editing tool rescues photoreceptors from a variety of mutations

Fish Eyes May Hold Key to Regenerating Human Retinas

March 13, 2017

New research into retinal regeneration in zebrafish has identified a signal that appears to trigger the self-repair process....

From Sight to Recognition: Researchers Map How the Brain Processes Faces

January 11, 2017

Scientists used highly sophisticated brain imaging tools and computational methods to measure the real-time brain processes t...

The Science of Baby's First Sight

January 10, 2017

UNC scientists conduct seminal experiments to unveil how early-in-life visual experiences—simply trying to see—sc...

Scientists Shed New Light on How the Brain Processes & Maintains What We Don’t See

December 9, 2016

In the study, human subjects viewed a series of quickly flashed images, and reported which ones they saw and which they could...

Microbes in Your Gut Influence Major Eye Disease

November 17, 2016

Bacteria in your intestines may play an important role in determining if you will develop blinding wet age-related macular de...

First-Ever Restoration of Vision Achieved in Mice

July 13, 2016

Broken links between retinal ganglion cells and target structures throughout the brain spell permanent vision loss. But in a ...

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