Bar Harbor, Maine– While studying mice with a mutant gene whose counterpart causes inherited glaucoma in humans, researchers have discovered a second gene mutation that worsens the structural eye ...

When University of Delaware doctoral student Sandeep Aryal took the initiative to learn additional research techniques to study proteins present in the eye, his work resulted in the discovery of a new ...

An opthalmologist, Zainab Akinbode, has advised Nigerians to desist from using substances such as breast milk and urine as remedies to treat eye defects. Dr. Akinbode said such practices could cause ...

A coloboma is a missing piece of tissue in a person's eye. It is a congenital condition (meaning one you are born with) that can affect any part of the eye but is most common on the color part of the ...

Get a closer look at the biotech ophthalmology landscape to discover exactly how companies are approaching the treatment of eye diseases.

A team of psychologists, bioengineers and neurologists from The University of Tokyo and Monash University in Australia has tested the possibility of using a qualia structure paradigm to understand ...

A new study finds that Zika infection during the first trimester of pregnancy can impact fetal retinal development and cause congenital ocular anomalies. The virus does not appear to affect ocular ...