LOS ANGELES (March 18, 2014) – Investigators at the Cedars-Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute have discovered eye abnormalities that may help reveal features of early-stage Alzheimer's disease.

Found only in the retinas of humans and other primates, the fovea is responsible for visual experiences that are rich in colorful, spatial detail. Some reasons behind the fovea's unusual perceptual ...

The intricacy and seeming perfection of the eye, both as an object of anatomical beauty and as a working machine, have worried and intrigued scientists, philosophers and zealots, especially during the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Living in an area with high deprivation was associated with a thinner retinal nerve fiber layer. Researchers ...

Chemical bonds within the eye-lens protein gamma-B crystallin hold the protein together and are therefore important for the function of the protein within the lens. Contrary to previous assumptions, ...

α-Crystallin is a major lens protein, comprising up to 40% of total lens proteins, where its structural function is to assist in maintaining the proper refractive index in the lens. In addition to its ...

Integrative and Comparative Biology, Vol. 58, No. 3 (September 2018), pp. 386-397 (12 pages) Most stomatopod crustaceans have complex retinas in their compound eyes, with up to 16 spectral types of ...

The colored part of the eye surrounding the pupil is called the iris. It automatically regulates the amount of light entering the eyes by regulating the size of the pupil. Light is the primary ...

Using the same tools designed to observe the stars, vision scientists at Indiana University have taken the first accurate microscopic images of the trabecular meshwork—as structure found in the ...

For just a few hours, shimmering waves of calcium move through cells in the developing eyes of fruit flies. These spontaneous ...