NEI Research News

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientists have identified a compound that could give birth to therapies for a host of eye diseases that include retinopathy of prematurity and diabetic retinopathy.

A team of researchers has identified networks of genes that allow neurons to regenerate in animals like zebrafish.

NEI-funded scientists are hacking the zebrafish’s innate regenerative capacity to learn how to treat human disease.

New research from the University of Utah provides insight on how people with retinal degenerative disease can maintain their night vision for a relatively long period of time.

NEI-funded study shows coupling of structure and function at a sub-cellular level in visual areas of the mouse brain

The brain’s visual centers must be adept at filtering out noise from retinal cells to get to the true signal, and those filters have to constantly adapt. Prosthetic retinas are going to need this same filtering to succeed, NEI-funded research shows.

Researchers funded by the National Eye Institute show in a mammalian model the reprogramming of heritability to promote disease resilience in the next generation.

Scientists at the University of Washington School of Medicine detect minute changes in response to light in photoreceptors in a living eye.

A College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences and College of Pharmacy team believes the medication may also translate to the treatment of cataracts and uveitis in humans.

Harvard Medical School surgeons at Massachusetts Eye and Ear have replaced the ocular surface of four patients who each experienced chemical burns to one eye.