Scientists bring nerve cells from human eyes back from the dead
Using a special revival technique, researchers were able to restore a glimmer of life into the eyes of dead human ...
Tag: retina
The powerhouse of the cell is also a powerhouse in vision
Structures providing energy to cells have a crucial role in vision.
Spanish researchers developed an “artificial retina” that beams sight directly into the brain of blind patients
It's by no means perfect just yet, but the results are very encouraging.
Our eyes have a focal point — but images don’t seem to focus on it, weirdly
This, unexpectedly, makes our vision a bit better.
Artificial eye paves the way for cyborg vision
I spy with my robot eye.
Bigger boost in robot’s field of view
Human-eye type of device from Oregon State University picks human brains.
The human eye can tell day from night with three types of cells
The insight could be use to design indoor lights that synchronize with day-night cycles better or even improve mood.
Parkinson’s disease might soon be diagnosed with a simple eye test
There is no cure for the disease but diagnosing and treating it early can mean the world to a patient.
Google AI can now look at your retina and predict the risk of heart disease
After analyzing data from over a quarter million patients, the neural network can predict the patient's age (within a 4-year range), ...
Artificial Intelligence can tell you your blood pressure, age, and smoking status — just by looking at your eye
The eyes can also be a window into a person's health.
New hydrogel can glue retina back into eye
This could revolutionize eye surgery!
How the eye works
How eyesight works and other functions.
Human eye inspired processor is 400 times faster at detecting sub-atomic particles
Inspired by the properties of the human eye, physicists have created a processor that can analyze sub-atomic particles 400 times ...
Japanese woman is first recipient of next-generation stem cells
Researchers were able to grow sheets of retinal tissue from induced pluripotent stem cells, and have now implanted them for ...
Weird state of matter found in chicken’s eye
You may not find many interesting things to see when glaring into a chicken's eye, but after closely studying its ...
New chemical restores light perception to blind mice
A long time ago I wrote a piece on the developments made by a group at University of California, Berkeley that ...
New Urine Test Could Diagnose Eye Disease
Urine isn't exactly the first place you want to start looking for eye diseases - but according to a new ...
This is not SciFi: software update slated for bionic eye will grant higher resolution and colour vision
The Argus II is the first bionic eye implant, designed to grant the blind vision, that has been approved by ...
Blood vessels in the eye linked to IQ and cognitive functions
It's not quite what scientists expected - the width of blood vessels in the eye, at the back of the ...
Retina implant restores sight to the blind
In the culmination of 15 years worth of painstaking research work related to retina implants, scientists from Germany and Hungary ...
Right below the eyes is the best place to get the look of a person
Eye contact plays a very important role in human interactions, however a recent research study made by psychologists at UC Santa ...
Stem cells treatment dramatically improves vision of the blind
Detailed in a recently published study, a team of ophthalmologists have successfully managed to improve the vision of both of ...
Artificial brain teaches itself how to count objects like animals do
An artificial brain has taught itself how to estimate the number of objects in an image without actually counting them, ...