NEI Research News

For adults and children who undergo cataract surgery, implantation of an artificial lens is the standard of care.

Biologists at UC San Diego discovered that the ability of our brains to figure out and process directional movements is a result of the activation in the cortex of signals that originate from the direction-sensing cells in the retina.

The unusual arrangement of cells in a chicken's eye constitutes the first known biological occurrence of a potentially new state of matter known as “disordered hyperuniformity,” according to researchers.

The National Eye Institute paid tribute to the late Dr. Jules Stein on Jan. 7, 2014.

New research shows that brains of adult mice can also be re-wired to compensate for a temporary vision loss by improving their hearing.

A new study indicates that it may be possible to accurately characterize complete neural networks by recording the activity of properly selected samples of 50 neurons or less - an alternative that is much easier to realize.

Dr. Brian Brooks of NEI has been elected into one of the nation’s most respected medical honor societies, the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI).

Researchers have made progress toward an approach that would use light-sensitive drugs to stimulate cells in the retina and restore vision to people who are blind or visually impaired.

Like a miniature donut stuffed inside a tiny pita pocket, a common glaucoma medicine is sandwiched inside this specially designed contact lens.

Using a new approach, MIT researchers scanned individuals’ brains as they looked at different images and were able to pinpoint, to the millisecond, when the brain recognizes and categorizes an object, and where these processes occur.