A treatment that targets dysfunctional photoreceptors regardless of the underlying genetic mutation leads to improved ...

Target Enrollment Achieved with the Inclusion of Participants with Both Dominant and Recessive Forms of BEST DiseaseBaseline ...

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 ...

Optometric care has advanced significantly with OCT and high-resolution retinal imaging, yet clinicians still encounter a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Retinal reserve is the retina’s remaining functional capacity to maintain vision despite underlying stress and ...

A study on ground squirrels shows, not only do mitochondria produce bioenergy in the cone-shaped photoreceptors in the retina of the eye, they also act as micro-lenses that redirect light to the ...

Humans develop sharp vision during early fetal development thanks to an interplay between a vitamin A derivative and thyroid hormones in the retina, Johns Hopkins University scientists have found. The ...

Researchers mapped the organization of human retinal cell chromatin, the fibers that package 3 billion nucleotide-long DNA molecules into compact structures that fit into chromosomes within each ...

Neural tissue normally dies quickly without oxygen. Yet bird retinas—among the most energy-demanding tissues in the animal kingdom—function permanently without it. This may be relevant in future ...