The eye is not just a lens that takes pictures and converts them into electrical signals. As with all vertebrates, nerve cells in the human eye separate an image into different image channels once it has been projected onto the retina. This pre-sorted …
Researchers Find Learning In The Visual Brain
A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota’s College of Liberal Arts and College of Science and Engineering have found that an early part of the brain’s visual system rewires itself when people are trained to perceive patterns, and have sho…
How Key Drug Kills Worms In Tropical Diseases Discovered By Researchers
In a major breakthrough that comes after decades of research and nearly half a billion treatments in humans, scientists have finally unlocked how a key anti-parasitic drug kills the worms brought on by the filarial diseases river blindness and elephant…
Research Reveals That Deaf Adults See Better Than Hearing People
Adults born deaf react more quickly to objects at the edge of their visual field than hearing people, according to groundbreaking new research by the University of Sheffield. The study, which was funded by the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (…
Study Finds Vitamins E And C Don’t Reduce Cataract Risk In Men
Long-term use of vitamin E and C supplements doesn’t reduce the risk of age-related cataracts in men, a new study finds.
Vision May Improve Despite RPE Tears In Eyes Receiving Anti-VEGF Therapy For CNV
Retinal pigment epithelium tears after intravitreal injection of ranibizumab for classic choroidal neovascularization secondary to age-related macular degeneration occurred in 5% of patients, a study found.