To the casual eye, a memory foam mattress would appear to have no relationship to the behavior of cells and tissues. But an innovative study carried out at the Centro de Investigaciones ...

Dr. Cornelia Peterson is dedicated to finding treatments for cancer by researching tumors that develop in Meibomian glands, ...

To protect your eye health and support your vision, these are 10 simple things you can do every day for your eyes.

Genes contain the essential building instructions for life, guiding cells on which amino acids to assemble in what sequence to produce specific proteins. The human genome codes for about 20,000 such ...

"We already knew that certain mutations in these subunits are linked to the eye disease retinitis pigmentosa," says Dr. Cristian Prieto-Garcia from the Institute of Biochemistry II, the first author ...

The 2024 conference has 28 late-breakers plus plenty of basic and population science. More than anything, it’s a celebration.

The human body contains a vast, complex, and interconnected web of organic tunnels and passageways that weave their way ...

It happens when a parasite that can be found in water invades the eye, damaging the cornea, causing severe pain and ...

The study focused on the fovea, a tiny region in the center of the retina responsible for our sharpest vision.

Motion illusions override the eye’s compensatory mechanisms for stabilizing movements. The brain works intensively to process ...

According to Parikh, diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness and severe vision loss among working-age people ...

The work, published in The Journal of Physiology, reveals that along the somatosensory pathway, there are neurons capable of responding to different types of stimuli applied to the eye surface and ...