For the first time, an international research team led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has recorded a tiny mechanical "twitch" in living human and rodent eyes at the ...

“The non-invasive in vivo optical imaging of rhodopsin activation extends the diagnostic capability of ORG and may facilitate ...

Investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that cells making up a non-visual system in the eye are in place and functioning long before the rods and cones that ...

The longest living vertebrate on Earth may have a thing or two to teach us about maintaining our eyesight into old age. New ...

The eye is an organ that's easy to access, and biologists have been able to study it in detail. Light is sensed by special cells that are photoreceptors, and the information they collect is converted ...

Scientists at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have discovered that certain retinal cells can rewire themselves when vision begins to deteriorate in ...

Spark Therapeutics’ Luxturna made history as the first FDA-approved therapy that directly delivers a normal gene to take the place of a nonfunctional version to restore vision. Scientists are now ...

First off, my name is a misnomer. I love physics like Lennie likes bunnies. So I was wondering today about the following: What happens to the photons that hit your eye and are recognized as light? The ...