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Thanks to the work of NEI scientists and grantees, we’re constantly learning new information about the causes and treatment of vision disorders. Get the latest updates about their work — along with other news about NEI.

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Researchers discover therapeutic target to aid in glaucoma treatment

Indiana University researchers have identified a new therapeutic target that could lead to more effective treatment of glaucoma.
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New insights: Eye damage in Alzheimer’s disease patients

Cedars-Sinai investigators map changes to the retina that correspond to brain changes in the early stage of Alzheimer's disease, opening a path to earlier diagnosis.
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Eye experts weigh in on artificial tears in midst of infectious outbreak

Questions remain about artificial tears linked to an outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections involving 68 people in 16 states, including 5 cases of vision loss, as well as lung and urinary tract infections, and one death.
Fundus photograph of age-related macular degeneration showing drusen.

Discovery suggests new way to prevent common causes of vision loss

UVA Health scientists have discovered an unknown contributor to harmful blood vessel growth in the eye that could lead to new treatments for blinding macular degeneration and other common causes of vision loss.
Patient wearing brain pressure measuring device over their eyes.

Low brain pressure could be a risk factor for developing glaucoma

A recent international clinical study demonstrates that low intracranial pressure correlates with impaired patient vision, especially in the nasal zone.

HSC researcher discovered a potential cause for keratoconus

Researchers at the University of North Texas Health Science Center are the first to characterize extracellular vesicles in the tears of patients with keratoconus.

Early anti-VEGF treatment of diabetic retinopathy yields no benefit to visual acuity

While early treatment of diabetes-related eye disease slowed progression to severe disease, it did not improve visual acuity compared with treating more severe disease once it developed, according to a clinical study from the DRCR Retina Network.
Synapses between neurons in thalamus and cortex.

Sparse, small, but diverse neural connections help make perception reliable, efficient

In a study from the Picower Institute at MIT, the first detailed mapping and modeling of thalamus inputs onto visual cortex neurons show brain leverages “wisdom of the crowd” to process sensory information.
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US-Mexico Symposium highlights international collaborations, diabetic eye disease research

Session topics included assessing the global burden of diabetes-related eye disease; preventing, treating, and managing disease; and collaborating internationally.
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Researchers unravel why episodes of low blood sugar worsen eye disease in people with diabetes

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have linked transient low blood sugar levels that occur in people with diabetes with a molecular pathway that is turned on in oxygen-starved cells in the eye.