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A popular supplement most often used to help you get shut-eye may actually help you preserve your eyes, with new research linking melatonin and age-related macular degeneration (AMD).Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: Case Western Reserve … Continue reading Common sleep aid protects your eyesight as you age
Senescent cells have been the number-one target for scientists seeking the elusive magic bullet in anti-aging therapy. And with good reason: as we age, these old, dysfunctional, non-dividing cells become increasingly harder for the immune system to dis… Continue reading Selective cell ‘hit jobs’ aim to reverse age-related conditions
If you don’t like getting needles in the arm, imagine getting them in your eyes. That’s what people with wet age-related macular degeneration have to do, but thanks to new research, those injections may soon be replaced by painless eyedrops.Continue Re… Continue reading Blindness-preventing eyedrops could replace ocular injections
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading causes of vision loss in Americans over 60, affecting nearly 20 million people. In AMD, eyesight deteriorates in the central region of vision, meaning everyday tasks like driving, reading and seeing… Continue reading Hungry spiders offer insights into nutrition and age-related vision loss
One of the leading causes of blindness, age-related macular degeneration causes the center of an older person’s vision to become blurry or even completely absent. Arges glasses are designed to help, by relocating the unseen images.Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading Arges glasses move missing images for visually impaired users
Scientists have found that an existing drug, already used in humans to treat alcohol use disorder, could help restore vision lost to conditions like age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. The discovery also uncovers a new mechanism … Continue reading Alcoholism treatment restores vision in mice with macular degeneration
One of the main causes of vision loss in adults is deteriorative disorders of the retina, like macular degeneration, that are characterized by the death of the eye’s photoreceptor cells. Scientists are therefore focusing a lot of attention on coming up… Continue reading “Ice cube tray” retinal patch is loaded with cells to restore vision
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a debilitating condition that can lead to total blindness in its later stages. Now, researchers have created a new potential treatment for the currently incurable disease – a biohybrid artificial retina, made o… Continue reading Biohybrid artificial retina aims to restore vision using living cells
Scientists working towards next-generation treatments for blindness have made an exciting breakthrough, demonstrating how a new method of injecting healthy cells into the eyes could act as a one-two punch to address vision loss. The technique, demonstr… Continue reading Two-for-one eye cell injection boosts vision in severely blinded mice
We know exercise is a good thing. It improves everything from cardiovascular disease to one’s cognitive health. Observational studies have also seen physical activity lessen age-related vision loss, but until now it hasn’t been clear how causal that re… Continue reading Age-related vision loss prevented by exercise in experimental study