Some people with macular degeneration may not need shots in the eye

Some people with "wet" age-related macular degeneration may one day be able to safely stop eye injection therapy without further vision loss.

Rachel Butch-JHU • futurity
Jan. 19, 2022 ~8 min

People with macular degeneration may not need shots in the eye

Some people with "wet" age-related macular degeneration may one day be able to safely stop eye injection therapy without further vision loss.

Rachel Butch-JHU • futurity
Jan. 19, 2022 ~8 min


Understanding how squid eyes are made

Harvard researchers shed new light on squid eye development and convergent evolution.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Jan. 7, 2022 ~5 min

Team uncovers mechanisms that can lead to blindness

"Armed with this data, we can now target new therapeutic approaches aimed at treating or potentially curing blindness," says Krzysztof Palczewski.

Anne Warde-UC Irvine • futurity
Jan. 5, 2022 ~4 min

Cataract surgery linked to lower dementia risk

New findings strongly link cataract surgery with a lower risk of dementia among older people.

Bobbi Nodell-Washington • futurity
Dec. 7, 2021 ~8 min

Tiny moments of ‘blindness’ are key to your vision

New research finds that as you shift your gaze, you experience brief periods where vision is supressed and you're essentially blind.

Lindsey Valich-Rochester • futurity
Dec. 3, 2021 ~6 min

I've created human-style eyes for robots – with some inspiration from Jabba the Hutt

New research has created robot eyes that are similar human eyes to improve how robots interact with people.

Carl Strathearn, Research Fellow, Computing, Edinburgh Napier University • conversation
Nov. 4, 2021 ~7 min

Living retinas totally outdo engineering

Nature’s ultra low-power, ultra-sensitive detector arrays, also known as our retinas, should be the envy of smartphones everywhere.

Karl Bates-Duke • futurity
Sept. 29, 2021 ~8 min


Bird eye size reveals a whole lot about them

Digging into data from decades ago, a new study finds that the size of bird eyes can predict where they live and how they behave.

U. Florida • futurity
Aug. 23, 2021 ~10 min

Gene therapy could treat eye disease without surgery

Currently the only treatment for Fuchs' endothelial corneal dystrophy, a genetic eye disease, is a cornea transplant. A new gene therapy could change that.

U. Oregon • futurity
Aug. 5, 2021 ~5 min

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