NEI Research News

A new study reveals how the eye resolves inflammation in the eye disease autoimmune uveitis.

New research from UChicago shows that the superior colliculus, a brain region that controls eye movements, also plays an important role in higher cognitive functions like categorization and decision making.

New data demonstrate how social determinants of health can fuel disparities in monitoring for diabetic retinopathy for patients of different racial and ethnic groups.

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.

NEI-funded team demonstrates for the first time that cytokines play an important role in the development and regeneration of the retinal cells that degenerate in glaucoma.

The team identified small molecules that can reduce the production of proteins linked to age-related macular degeneration.

NIH-funded investigators break down what is known about the virus' effect on the eye and management of ocular infections

Researchers have identified how brain cells begin to coalesce into a wired network in early development before experience has a chance to shape the brain.

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.

A study led by Georgetown University neuroscientists reveals that the part of the brain that receives and processes visual information in sighted people develops a unique connectivity pattern in people born blind.