NEI Research News

A clinical trial that tested an experimental stem cell treatment for blinding cornea injuries found the treatment was feasible and safe in 14 patients, and there was a high proportion of complete or partial success.

A team led by researchers at Mount Sinai has identified in mice a potential therapeutic target for dry eye disease.

Researchers at the Jackson Laboratories used mice with nine different genetic backgrounds to identify factors influencing eye aging, paving the way for eye-based diagnostics for neurodegenerative diseases

Researchers create a new robotic surgery device that aims to give surgeons “superhuman” hands, accounting for patients’ breathing and eye movements, along with their own involuntary hand tremors, while they work on retinal tissues.

Florida Atlantic University researchers Lisa A. Brennan and Marc Kantorow will determine the novel mechanisms that convert immature eye lens precursor cells into functional transparent cells.

UConn scientists led by Ephraim Trakhtenberg regrew optic nerves in mice through eye injections of fibronectin peptides (pieces of the larger protein).

Study reveals how DNA damage, a hallmark of aging, compromises the retina’s function and accelerates vision loss. Targeting specific retinal cell types could lead to treatments that slow or stop progression.

ARPA-H announced the teams to receive awards from its Transplantation of Human Eye Allografts (THEA) program.

National Eye Institute-funded scientists using gene editing corrected a mutation in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited blinding eye disorder. The gene editing strategy restored production of rhodopsin, and retinal function and structure

Working with week-old zebrafish larva, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and colleagues decoded how the connections formed by a network of neurons in the brainstem guide the fishes’ gaze.