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NIH scientists test in an animal model a surgical technique to improve cell therapy for dry AMD

National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists have developed a new surgical technique for implanting multiple tissue grafts in the eye's retina. The findings in animals may help advance treatment options for dry age-related macular degeneration.

NEI-funded study shows low blood sugar contributes to eye damage and vision loss in diabetic retinopathy

In a new National Institutes of Health-funded study led by scientists at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have determined that low blood sugar, or hypoglycemia, may promote a breakdown of the blood-retinal barrier.

NIH challenge prize winners propose innovative use of open-science collaborative to advance eye health

Four teams have won a prize competition aimed at integrating eye care and ocular imaging data into studies using large healthcare datasets in biomedical research.

NIH researchers supercharge ordinary clinical device to get a better look at the back of the eye

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have leveraged artificial intelligence to transform a device designed to see tissues in the back of the eye into one sharp enough to make out individual cells.

NEI-funded study explores how thoughts influence what the eyes see

A new study show how the brain’s visual regions play an active role in making sense of information. Crucially, the way it interprets the information depends on what the rest of the brain is working on.

Researchers study how brains remember multiple things at once

Research funded by the National Eye Institute offers insight into what is happening in our brains when our working memory must use its limited resources to remember multiple things.

NEI-funded researchers test new visual prosthesis system to restore vision

Brown University researchers have identified a promising new approach that may help to restore vision in people affected by macular degeneration and other retinal disorders.

Repurposing a high blood pressure drug may prevent vision loss in inherited blinding diseases

New studies in rats suggest the drug reserpine, approved in 1955 for high blood pressure, might treat the blinding disease retinitis pigmentosa. No therapy exists for this rare inherited disease, which starts affecting vision from childhood.
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NEI-funded researchers “push the ENVLPE” with new virus-like particle to fix mutations causing blindness

New CRISPR gene editing approach may also be useful for treating other inherited diseases, such as cystic fibrosis and familial hypercholesterolemia

NIH researchers develop eye drops that slow vision loss in animals

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed eye drops that extend vision in animal models of a group of inherited diseases that lead to progressive vision loss in humans, known as retinitis pigmentosa.

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