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NEI Research News

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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Fruit fly eye.

How flies develop sight: Scientists use single-cell sequencing to identify cell types in the visual system

New York University researchers have discovered new cell types in the visual system of flies, made possible by their creation of a tool that finds and labels neurons during development.
Man using eye drops

Eye-opening research: NIH funds glaucoma treatment research at Missouri S&T

Missouri S&T researchers have developed a treatment that could eventually enable glaucoma patients to only use eye drops once per week instead of daily, and it should also be more effective.
New York subway with moving train.

New app developed at NYU Tandon promises to make navigating subway stations easier for people with blindness and low vision

Designed by researchers at NYU, Commute Booster routes public-transportation users through the “middle mile” — the part of a journey inside subway stations or other similar transit hubs.
Alexandra Benavente-Pérez

SUNY Optometry receives NIH grant to study the link between myopia and glaucoma

SUNY College of Optometry’s Dr. Alexandra Benavente-Pérez was awarded a grant that will explore the unknown nature of the relationship between myopia (nearsightedness) and glaucoma by focusing on their effect on the ganglion cell complex.
Close up of woman's face.

Study identifies how diabetes slows healing in the eye

Cedars-Sinai researchers uncover disease-related changes to the cornea and propose potential therapeutic approaches to correct diabetic wound healing.
illustration showing axial elongation of the eye from myopia

Very low-dose atropine eye drops no better than placebo for slowing myopia progression

Use of low-dose atropine eyedrops (concentration 0.01%) was no better than placebo at slowing myopia (nearsightedness) progression and elongation of the eye among children treated for two years
Schematic shows blood vessel leakage on side of retina

Could drops replace eye injections for retina disease?

A new study suggests that eye drops developed by Columbia University researchers could be a more effective–and comfortable–therapy for a common eye disease currently treated with injections into the eye.

Study uncovers novel synaptic intricacies inside the retina

A Northwestern Medicine study has uncovered novel cellular mechanisms within the retina, findings that could help advance the development of targeted therapeutics for diseases and conditions affecting vision.

Lab-grown ‘mini-corneas’ mimic developing human corneas

Three-dimensional, lab-grown “mini-corneas” resemble the developing human cornea, making them a powerful new tool for the study of corneal diseases, a study finds.

Patients with specific types of lipids may be at higher risk of developing blinding eye disease

Scientists find association between lipid metabolism and glaucoma.