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Scientists have grown mini eyes from human cells in the lab. These eye organoids provide good models of the real thing to help scientists study diseases that cause blindness and potentially find treatments.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: organoi… Continue reading Scientists grow mini eyes in lab dishes to study blindness
The days of cathode ray tubes, or CRTs, are firmly behind us, and that’s generally a good thing. Display tubes were heavy, bulky and fragile, and needed complicated high-voltage electronics …read more Continue reading This Eye is Watching You From its Tiny CRT
A team of researchers in the UK has developed a fully automated artificial intelligence-enabled system that can scan retinal images for vascular health, helping identify those at high risk of heart disease and stroke.Continue ReadingCategory: Health &a… Continue reading AI-enabled eye scan delivers stroke and heart disease risk scores
When crossing the road in front of a car, pedestrians should make eye contact with the driver, to make sure they’ve been seen. However, what if the car has no driver? New research suggests that the vehicle should then have eyes of its own.Continue Read… Continue reading In order to make driverless cars safer … give them big eyes?
New research points to an easily measured eye response to light as a potentially useful way of diagnosing autism in very young children. Further testing is currently underway in a large cohort of children and a simple device to screen pupil responses h… Continue reading Pupil light response proposed as biomarker to diagnose autism
A cornea implant made out of collagen gathered from pig skin has restored the vision of 20 volunteers in a landmark pilot study. Pending further testing, the novel bioengineered implant is hoped to improve the vision of millions around the world awaiti… Continue reading Cornea implant made from pig skin restores vision in landmark pilot trial
Scientists studying the aging process in the eye have made an important discovery around the role of a so-called “youth” protein, and shown how it promotes a cellular recycling process that maintains our vision. Experiments on mice missing this protein led to fast-tracked degeneration in the retina, indicating that the protein plays an important protective role against age-related vision loss.
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Scientists in Europe have discovered a molecular “zipper” mechanism that can lead to cell death in the genetic disease retinitis pigmentosa. The good news is that injecting certain proteins could slow down or prevent vision impairment from the disease…. Continue reading Tightening a molecular “zipper” could help prevent hereditary blindness
When you view the image above, does it look like black smear in the center is expanding? If it does, that means you’re like most people – and your brain may even think that you’re entering a tunnel, adjusting your eyes accordingly.Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading “Expanding hole” illusion tricks the brain into dilating the pupils
Cataracts are one of the most common forms of vision impairment, and unfortunately surgery is the only real treatment. But the clouds may be parting on a new drug treatment, improving the vision of the majority of mice it was tested on.Continue Reading… Continue reading New cataract-clearing drug shows promise in tests in mice