Eylea (aflibercept) has been approved by the FDA for wet AMD (age-related macular degeneration). Wet (neovascular) AMD is one of the main causes of blindness or vision impairment in older Americans - by affecting the part of the eye that allows us to see fine detail (the macula), it destroys our sharp central vision. Such daily tasks as reading, writing and driving become more and more difficult...

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Someone with the condition known as grapheme-color synesthesia might experience the number 2 in turquoise or the letter S in magenta. Now, researchers reporting their findings online in the Cell Press journal Current Biology have shown that those individuals also show heightened activity in a brain region responsible for vision...

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