Category: OPHTHALMOLOGY

Combination treatment based shows promise for treatment of retinal degenerations, drug repurposing study finds

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

Research offers new insight into high rate of metastasis

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

Researchers discover new role of immune cells in eye health

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

Global prevalence of short-sightedness in children and teens set to top 740 million cases by 2050, says study

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

Scientists discover gene responsible for rare, inherited eye disease

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

Gene therapy discovery triggers hope for glaucoma patients

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

New model shows cortical implants like Elon Musk’s Blindsight are unlikely to ‘exceed normal human vision’

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

Gene therapy shows promise in glaucoma research

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

New eye sensors use special material that generates electricity when it bends

New wearable sensors, developed by UH engineers, examine eye movement to assess brain disorders or damage to the brain. Credit: University of Houston A University of Houston engineering team has

Study finds two common surgeries equally effective for treating blinding condition of the eyelid

On a normal eyelid (left), eyelashes are turned outward away from the cornea. Eyelids affected by trichiasis (center) have eyelashes touching the eye. Surgery for eyelids affected by trichiasis (right),