NEI Research News

Researchers are searching for a new treatment target for a common complication of diabetes that can cause retinal blood vessels to break down, leak or become blocked.

A new study at the University of Houston College of Optometry will track the health of patients with prediabetes and diabetes to find out who might develop eye problems and be at risk for future vision loss.

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered the source of dysfunction in the process whereby cells in the eye's retina remove waste.

Perspective article aims to help beginning scientists develop thoughtful, articulate, compelling, and competitive research proposals.

A new study from MIT offers a possible explanation for how the brain comes to be adept at identifying both color and color-degraded images, even though the human visual system has sophisticated machinery for processing color.

Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine have discovered that the virus that causes COVID-19 can breach the blood-retina barrier with potential long-term consequences in the eye.

A gene previously implicated in the development of atherosclerotic lesions in coronary arteries could be key to understanding why many people don’t benefit from the most used therapy for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

The National Eye Institute has worked with the editors-in-chief of 7 leading vision journals to create a new two-year program: the Council of Vision Editors Fellowship Program.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health applied artificial intelligence (AI) to a technique that produces high-resolution images of cells in the eye. They report that with AI, imaging is 100 times faster and improves image contrast 3.5-fold.

Aqueous Humor Proteome Database includes comprehensive information on 1,683 proteins identified in aqueous humor--the fluid in the eye's anterior chamber.