Tag : Macular Degeneration

While there is no cure for blindness and macular degeneration, scientists have accelerated the process to find a cure by visualizing the inner workings of...

A software-based on artificial intelligence (AI), which was developed by researchers at the Eye Clinic of the University Hospital Bonn, Stanford University and University of...

One of the immune system’s oldest branches, called complement, may be influencing the severity of COVID disease, according to a new study from researchers at...

In experiments in rats and mice, two Johns Hopkins scientists -; an engineer and an ophthalmologist -; report the successful use of nanoparticles to deliver...

Researchers at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) has led to the revolutionary development of an artificial liquid retinal prosthesis to counteract the...

Davetta Brooks, 75, who has heart failure, a fractured hip and macular degeneration, is afraid. Conditions in her low-income senior building on Chicago’s Near West...

Scientists have identified a key step in the process that leads to leaky vessels and harmful swelling in eye diseases, according to a new study...

Scientists in Sweden have innovated a method of treating blindness using embryonic stem cells to produce retinal cells. Source link...

Age related macular degeneration or AMD leads to loss of vision in around 1.5 million people in the United Kingdom and millions of others around...

Researchers have identified a new protein linked to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) that could offer new hope for the diagnosis and treatment of the disease,...

UPMC has implanted the first patient in the United States with a new wireless retinal device as part of a clinical trial aimed at restoring...

Macular degeneration causes blindness in millions of people in the Western world. It is the most common cause of severe vision loss in the Western...

A study has linked diets high in red meat and fatty foods to age-related macular degeneration in seniors. Source link...

Age-related macular degeneration is the primary cause of central vision loss and results in the center of the visual field being blurred or fully blacked...

Treatments for eye diseases are considered among the most promising for stem cells, which have been under study for more than 3 decades. While proponents...

Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have announced a major breakthrough with important implications for sufferers of a common eye disease – dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration...

A portable device attached to a smartphone can help capture precise images of the retina to diagnose eye disease. The new method by a startup...

Researchers have discovered a new genetic variant responsible for blood vessel dysregulation in the development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Source link...

Fight for Sight funded research published this week in Clinical Epigenetics, has identified new genes linked to the development of age-related macular degeneration, the leading...

Calcified nodules in the retina are associated with progression to late stages of age-related macular degeneration. Source link...