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Jun 9, 2010
Another dimension to 3-D TVs: Health risks
Teens have been known to play video games until they're glassy-eyed.
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Jun 8, 2010
Training eye movement may reduce driver distraction
More than 16 people are killed and more than 1,300 people are injured each day in crashes involving a distracted driver, a phenomenon that could be reduced with the right application of motion information and appropriate ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 21, 2010
Gene therapy cures canines of inherited form of day blindness
Veterinary ophthalmology researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have used gene therapy to restore retinal cone function and day vision in two canine models of congenital achromatopsia, also called rod monochromacy ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 26, 2010
Grant to study how cells sense electric fields
Learning how living cells can detect and respond to electric fields is the aim of a $570,000, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to Min Zhao, professor of dermatology and ophthalmology at the UC Davis Health ...
Biochemistry
Jan 15, 2010
Study advances new target for CNS drug development
A breakthrough discovery by scientists at the University of Kentucky could someday lead to new treatments for a variety of diseases of the brain, spinal cord and the eye.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 8, 2009
Umbilical stem cells may help recover lost vision for those with corneal disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) may help in the recovery of lost vision for patients with corneal scarring.
Biotechnology
Oct 29, 2009
'Moonlighting' molecules discovered
Since the completion of the human genome sequence, a question has baffled researchers studying gene control: How is it that humans, being far more complex than the lowly yeast, do not proportionally contain in our genome ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 24, 2009
Retina cells grown from skin-derived stem cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health has successfully grown multiple types of retina cells from two types of stem cells — suggesting a future ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 7, 2009
Scientists explain why birds get sex on the brain in the Spring
(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxford University researchers have discovered how birds sense the lengthening days of early Spring and time when they breed, solving a 70-year mystery.
Plants & Animals
Jun 1, 2009
Squid 'sight': Not just through eyes
It's hard to miss the huge eye of a squid. But now it appears that certain squids can detect light through an organ other than their eyes as well.
