Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study has found that an artificial intelligence (AI) conversational agent enhances patient care after cataract surgery. The AI-powered automated voice system, called Dora, is
Mitochondrial respiration in PBMCs. Credit: Nature Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-03068-6 Over 700,000 people in the UK have glaucoma and it is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. The condition
Dietary TMB self-administration stabilizes the retinal transcriptome and mitigates the disease phenotype in rd10 mice. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50033-5 Drug repurposing shows promise in the treatment of retinal
Credit: Marc Schulte from Pexels New research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) is one step closer to understanding why uveal melanoma, the deadliest form of eye cancer, has such a
Credit: The American Journal of Pathology (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2024.07.021 The eye is an immune-privileged tissue because of the need to keep blood vessels away from the central pathway of light
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Around one in three children and teens around the world is short (near)-sighted, with the global prevalence of myopia set to top 740 million cases by
Ophthalmic images from five of the patients in the study demonstrate significant variability in the forms of retinal dystrophy. Credit: Bin Guan, Ph.D. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health
Modulation of tau expression in C57BL/6 mice retinas. Credit: Acta Neuropathologica Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1186/s40478-024-01804-0 The protein tau is essential to the function of cells in the brain and central
Schematic of our cortical model. (A) Transformation from visual space to the cortical surface. Simulated V1 maps on the human cortical surface for (B) orientation pinwheel maps (entire cortical map
Reduction of NMNAT2 increases retinal ganglion cell susceptibility to injury. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50354-5 Pete Williams is one of few researchers in Sweden concentrating on glaucoma. The goal
