NEI Research News

U. Delaware's Salil Lachke identifies new mechanism essential for eye lens development.

Inspired by tiny nanostructures on transparent butterfly wings, engineers at Caltech have developed a synthetic analogue for eye implants that makes them more effective and longer-lasting.

New ophthalmoscopy method obtains high-definition, high-contrast images of translucent cells where the disease originates.

In a major step forward in the battle against macular degeneration, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered a critical trigger for the damaging inflammation that ultimately robs millions of their sight.

A protein shaped like a 'Y' made NEI-funded scientists at Georgia Tech do a double-take may change the way they think about the protein which is sometimes implicated in glaucoma.

A new study by NEI-funded researchers at The Ohio State University suggests that farsighted preschoolers and kindergartners have a harder time paying attention and that could put them at risk of slipping behind in school.

UW Medicine scientists funded by NEI are discovering how the brain functions when figuring out shapes that are fully seen or partially covered. As the task becomes more difficult, a reasoning and sensory parts of the brain interact through signals.

Researchers at The Rockefeller University have begun to unravel the mystery of how the brain recognizes familiar faces. Their results are published in the journal Science.

NEI funded researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have identified an enzyme present in the cornea that trigger inflammation during–and even after–a herpes virus infection. Their results are published in the journal Cell Reports.

A new NEI-funded study in Nature helps to explain how specialized retinal cells help stabilize vision by perceiving how their owner is moving.