The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), this week published its "Strategic vision for improving human health at The Forefront of Genomics" in the journal Nature. ...
Oct 28, 2020
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Recently discovered 'single-pixel vision' in fish could help researchers understand how humans are able to spot tiny details in their environment—like stars in the sky.
May 29, 2020
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Vision researchers at York University have disproved a long-standing theory of how the human vision system processes images, using computational models and human experiments.
Oct 24, 2019
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In a study published in Science Advances magazine, researchers from the University of California, Irvine have captured, for the first time, the full-length structure of the rod photoreceptor phosphodiesterase 6 (PDE6), an ...
Apr 5, 2019
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Hundreds of new genes linked to blindness and other vision disorders have been identified in a screen of mouse strains. Many of these genes are likely important in human vision and the results could help identify new causes ...
Dec 21, 2018
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Researchers have achieved dynamic, atomic-scale views of a protein needed to maintain the transparency of the lens in the human eye. The work, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, could lead to new insights ...
Aug 5, 2013
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(Medical Xpress)—People often think that other people are staring at them even when they aren't research led by the University of Sydney has found.
Apr 9, 2013
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A new study raises the intriguing possibility that drugs prescribed to lower cholesterol may be effective against macular degeneration, a blinding eye disease.
Apr 2, 2013
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Vision researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute have made a groundbreaking discovery into the optimization of light sources to human vision. By tuning lighting devices to work more efficiently with the human brain the ...
Nov 15, 2012
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University of Kentucky researchers, led by Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, have made an exciting finding in the "dry" form of age-related macular degeneration known as geographic atrophy (GA). GA is an untreatable condition that ...
Aug 6, 2012
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