There’s an old saying, attributed to writers from Cicero to Shakespeare, that says the eyes are the windows to the soul. But it may be more accurate to say that your eyes, and in particular your ...
Share on Pinterest New research involving cones and rods in the retina could lead to new treatments for vision loss. Gregory Adams/Getty Images Cone photoreceptors in retinal degeneration have been ...
A year on, US scientists have provided an update on the patient who received the world's first whole eye transplant combined with a facial transplant. Although the patient cannot see through his new ...
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (07/10/2025) — A University of Minnesota Medical School-led research team discovered that a cancer signaling pathway has previously unrecognized roles in retina and brain blood ...
How is a healthy retina cell like a tumor cell? It hijacks an energy-producing chemical reaction to churn out molecular building blocks. When tumor cells do it, they use the building blocks to make ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, the first implanted device to treat adult patients with advanced retinitis pigmentosa (RP). The device, which ...
New research shows that a protein expressed in the human retina can sense magnetic fields when implanted into Drosophila, reopening an area of sensory biology in humans for further exploration. For ...