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Retina-on-a-chip may provide useful alternative to existing models for studying eye disease

The development of a retina-on-a-chip, which combines living human cells with an artificial tissue-like system, has been described today in the open-access journal eLife.

27 Aug 2019

New study provides unprecedented insights into retina's genetic code

Australian scientists have led the development of the world's most detailed gene map of the human retina, providing new insights which will help future research to prevent and treat blindness.

27 Aug 2019

AR glasses could help improve quality of life for low vision patients

Nearly one in 30 Americans over the age of 40 experience low vision significant visual impairment that can't be corrected with glasses, contact lenses, medication or surgery.

27 Aug 2019

Fruit fly develops a long-lasting body-size memory, shows research

In order to orient themselves and survive in their environment, animals must develop a concept of their own body size.

25 Aug 2019

Eye-tracking tests may help identify people at high risk of developing Alzheimer's disease

New research has found that it may be possible to predict if people with mild memory and thinking impairments will go onto develop Alzheimer's disease using eye-tracking technology.

23 Aug 2019

New study reveals mechanism of ultraviolet-induced skin breakdown

The sunscreen industry has been plugging the use of various sun-protective creams for decades, ever since researchers found that certain skin cancers, including malignant melanoma, were due to sunlight-induced skin damage.

22 Aug 2019

Fasting reduces inflammation and improves chronic inflammatory diseases, study finds

Fasting regimens have gained public and scientific interest in recent years, but fasting shouldn't be dismissed as a fad. In a study published in Cell, Mount Sinai researchers found that fasting reduces inflammation and improves chronic inflammatory diseases without affecting the immune system's response to acute infections.

22 Aug 2019

Study: Lower levels of specific dietary vitamins and antioxidants associated with frailty

Researchers from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Aging at Trinity College Dublin have shown in the largest study to date that lower levels of specific dietary vitamins and antioxidants are associated with frailty.

22 Aug 2019

New therapy found to be effective for patients with a particular type of bone marrow cancer

Mount Sinai researchers have found a new type of therapy to be effective for patients with a particular type of bone marrow cancer that is resistant to several standard therapies, according to results of a clinical trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine in August.

22 Aug 2019

New insights into protein transport could help define strategies for treating eye disease

Many forms of vision loss stem from a common source: impaired communication between the eye and the brain. And at the root of all eye-to-brain communication are the hundreds of proteins generated by the retina's nerve cells.

22 Aug 2019

Difference between people with autism and rest of the population is shrinking, finds study

Around the world, the number of people diagnosed with autism is rising. In the United States, the prevalence of the disorder has grown from 0.05% in 1966 to more than 2% today.

22 Aug 2019

Research team discovers gene critical for human eye, brain and limb development

An international collaboration led by a team at Oxford Brookes University has identified an important new gene which could open up new doors for research and developing new therapies.

21 Aug 2019

Research examines role of Nicotinamide in preventing retinal cell damage caused by glaucoma

Fight for Sight is funding researchers at Cardiff University to examine the extent to which dietary supplementation of Nicotinamide – a form of vitamin B3 – can be used to reduce, and even prevent, retinal damage caused by glaucoma.

21 Aug 2019

Drug that treat human breast cancer might also work for canine lung cancer

Despite those velvet paintings of poker-playing dogs smoking pipes, cigars and cigarettes, our canine friends really don't use tobacco. But like many humans who have never smoked, dogs still get lung cancer.

21 Aug 2019

Researchers find possible causes for lacking of effective therapy for multiple sclerosis

Medications currently used to treat multiple sclerosis can merely reduce relapses during the initial relapsing-remitting phase.

20 Aug 2019

Placing students at the heart of Albumedix

Albumedix employ two postgraduates through the University of Nottingham placements scheme with companies for 3-6 months for up to 200 hours.

From Albumedix Ltd. 20 Aug 2019

New cellular process can engulf nanomaterial without direct peptide functionalization

Nanometers are one billionth of a meter, a metric typically used to measure molecules and scientific building blocks not visible to the human eye.

19 Aug 2019

Researchers discover how stress can decrease the desire to eat

Eating disorder researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have discovered a neurocircuit in mice that, when activated, increased their stress levels while decreasing their desire to eat. Findings appear in Nature Communications.

18 Aug 2019

Herpes treatment greatly improved by adding charcoal

A novel charcoal-based drug-delivery system to treat herpes infections topically shows greatly improved efficacy over conventional treatment. Here, the medication called acyclovir, commonly used for herpes infection, was combined with activated carbon particles.

15 Aug 2019

New research reveals how our brain remembers the order of events

For centuries understanding how the order of events is stored in memory has been a mystery. However, researchers from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick have worked out how the order of events in memory could be stored and later recalled in the hippocampal memory system in the brain.

14 Aug 2019

Eye Health News and Research

Latest Eye Health News and Research

Retina-on-a-chip may provide useful alternative to existing models for studying eye disease

New study provides unprecedented insights into retina's genetic code

AR glasses could help improve quality of life for low vision patients

Fruit fly develops a long-lasting body-size memory, shows research

Eye-tracking tests may help identify people at high risk of developing Alzheimer's disease

New study reveals mechanism of ultraviolet-induced skin breakdown

Fasting reduces inflammation and improves chronic inflammatory diseases, study finds

Study: Lower levels of specific dietary vitamins and antioxidants associated with frailty

New therapy found to be effective for patients with a particular type of bone marrow cancer

New insights into protein transport could help define strategies for treating eye disease

Difference between people with autism and rest of the population is shrinking, finds study

Research team discovers gene critical for human eye, brain and limb development

Research examines role of Nicotinamide in preventing retinal cell damage caused by glaucoma

Drug that treat human breast cancer might also work for canine lung cancer

Researchers find possible causes for lacking of effective therapy for multiple sclerosis

Placing students at the heart of Albumedix

New cellular process can engulf nanomaterial without direct peptide functionalization

Researchers discover how stress can decrease the desire to eat

Herpes treatment greatly improved by adding charcoal

New research reveals how our brain remembers the order of events

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