Humans develop sharp vision during early fetal development thanks to an interplay between a vitamin A derivative and thyroid hormones in the retina, Johns Hopkins University scientists have found. The ...

Visual dysfunction manifests early in Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, research shows, with functional impairment detected in patients with nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy lacking clinical signs and ...

There’s an old saying, attributed to writers from Cicero to Shakespeare, that says the eyes are the windows to the soul. But it may be more accurate to say that your eyes, and in particular your ...

Steffen Schmitz-Valckenberg, MD, discusses how optical coherence tomography-based models may enable rapid, noninvasive assessment of functional loss in GA at Angiogenesis 2026.

Pupillometry, the precise measurement of pupil size and dynamics, has emerged as a valuable tool in evaluating both autonomic nervous system integrity and central neural function. In particular, ...

We’ve been looking at the wrong part of the eye. New research shows the earliest signs of Alzheimer's are hidden at the very edges of the retina.

The eye of the apple snail is unusually similar to a human eye—but, unlike human eyes, it can regrow itself if injured or even amputated. New research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research ...