Kandel pays tribute to Hubel's and Wiesel's 25-year partnership and work in neurobiology & vision
...ffler, who opened up the field by studying the cat retina in 1950, and founded the department of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, where most of their work was done. A reception and book sale will follow. David H. Hubel is John Franklin Enders University Professor of Neurobiology, Emeritus, at Har...Gene for age-related macular degeneration discovered by Yale researchers
...es. It destroys vision by attacking an area of the retina called the macula, particularly in people age 60 or older. The macula is the most sensitive region of the retina, enabling fine-detail vision, reading, driving and leisure tasks such as playing sports and watching movies and television. As part of th...Schepens scientists regenerate optic nerve for the first time
...en uninjured, transmit visual information from the retina to the brain for interpretation In earlier research, Chen's team discovered several processes that they believed "locked up" the optic nerve's ability to regenerate. The first lock, they found, was the turning off of a specific gene BCL-2 which, w...Pegaptanib provides benefit for neovascular age-related macular degeneration
...AMD, abnormal blood vessels grow under the central retina and cause a progressive loss of central vision, interfering with driving, reading and other everyday tasks. As the population ages, almost 1 million people over the age of 55 years in the United States are expected to develop AMD in the next five yea...Nearsighted children may benefit from rigid contact lenses
...opia, which is fairly rare, can lead to a detached retina and permanent vision loss or glaucoma," Walline said. "Theoretically, wearing RGP lenses could lessen the severity of myopia, and likewise the chances of developing one of these problems. "But it's also a matter of convenience keeping myopia's progr...University of Utah study suggests cellular waste to blame for a form of blinding eye disease
...(known as rods and cones) are located in the eye's retina and are responsible for converting light into elec...s of converting light to electrical signals in the retina requires a tremendous amount of energy which, in turn, creates waste in the form of carbon dioxide a...Fetal tissue restores lost sight
...where near recreating the complex structure of the retina using stem cells. Instead, his team is examining the possibility of transplanting retinal sheets from pigs genetically engineered to reduce the chances of immune rejection....Growing epidemic of wet AMD ushers in new era in treatment of the disease
...e eye by injection and attack abnormal VEGF in the retina and adjoining tissues in eyes with wet macular degeneration. "There are several reasons why anti-VEGF treatment for macular degeneration is so exciting. For the first time, we will have a treatment option for all new cases of wet...Department of Energy announces new agreement with USC, national labs and private company
... speed the design and development of an artificial retina that might potentially help millions of people bli...e University of Southern California, and a team of retina experts under the direction of Mark Humayun, M.D., Ph.D., who has already completed the first phase ...DOE labs, universities and second sight partner to speed development of 'artificial retina'
... speed the design and development of an artificial retina that could potentially help millions of people bli...electronic device that rests on the surface of the retina to perform the function of normal photoreceptive cells. The artificial retina technology was featur...Livermore scientists join DOE consortium
...to millions of blind individuals. An artificial retina could restore vision to millions of people sufferi...electronic device that rests on the surface of the retina to perform the function of normal photoreceptive cells. The artificial retina technology wa...When looking isn't seeing: Is cockpit design flawed?
...ception of the environment is very restricted. The retina in the human eye can register literally thousands of pieces of information simultaneously. But how this information is processed by the brain to isolate a limited number of important features of our environment and allow us to react is a complex proc...World's largest medical eye meeting to be held in New Orleans
...s Subspecialty Day meetings in refractive surgery, retina and glaucoma Oct. 22 to 23. Leading medical experts in the field of vision and eye health will present research on topics including the latest techniques in refractive surgery to correct and improve vision, to advances in treating diseases, such as ...Optics meeting tips: Internal fingerprints, no cell left behind, 3-D reality
... eyeballs swapped out in order to fool a biometric retina scanner. Now, Robert Rowe of Lumidigm, Inc. introduces a system for fingerprint identification that is almost as hard to fool as the movies can imagine. The new sensor uses multiple colors of light to measure the subsurface structure of the finger, ...Chemists honor 'Heroes' for biotechnology achievements in health
...od vessels that grow under the central part of the retina known as the macula. These vessels leak and eventually cause scar tissue, which destroys central vision. Some 200,000 Americans lose their vision every year from wet AMD. Visudyne is first injected into the patient's arm and then activated by shini...Grants from Research to Prevent Blindness to support eye researchers surpassed $8 million in 2003
...n 2003 included research into: how circuits in the retina create vision; the influence of specific genes on various forms of uveitis (inflammation of certain eye structures); protecting eye nerve cells from stress-induced death; new means to prevent virus-induced blindness; the effect of low blood sugar lev...Cholesterol-lowering medications may reduce risk of glaucoma
...ge-related macular degeneration, a disorder of the retina that can cause gradual vision loss and is the leading cause of blindness among European-descended people older than 65 years. Gerald McGwin, Jr., M.S., Ph.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and colleagues investigated whether oral statin...Oxygen therapy may improve vision worsened by diabetes
...er treatments that also improve oxygenation in the retina to provide long-term stability in these patients. .... The treatment could reduce the thickness of the retina before laser treatment, making the laser more effective and more likely to maintain stability withou...Missing signal causes misrouting in certain degenerative eye diseases
...ation. The disease affects the central part of the retina and results in loss of central vision needed for s...lop new treatments. The unique composition of the retina also hints at the importance of the gene ELOVL4 in retinal degeneration. The retinal cells are comp...Extended exposure to sunlight may be related to the development of certain age-related eye diseases
...zed by the growth of abnormal blood vessels on the retina (the light-sensitive layer of cells at the back of the eye), the development of drusen (opaque deposits on the retina), and increased retinal pigment. Sandra C. Tomany, M.S., of the University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, and colleagues exam...