Eye Care News

June 11, 2025

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Vision Loss, Damage Could Be Tied to Eye Pressure, Study Finds

May 14, 2025 — One of the world's leading causes of irreversible vision loss could begin with elevated eye pressure, according to a recent ...

Vitamin Supplements Slow Down the Progression of Glaucoma

May 8, 2025 — A vitamin supplement that improves metabolism in the eye appears to slow down damage to the optic nerve in glaucoma. The researchers behind the study have now started a clinical trial on ...

Young Adults and Rise in Dry Eye Disease

Apr. 25, 2025 — Researchers have called for more advice to be given to young people about preventing dry eye disease, after a study found that 90% of participants had at least one sign of the condition in their ...

Vision Loss Fear May Keep Some from Having Cataract Surgery

Apr. 23, 2025 — A new study finds vision loss fears may deter some patients from cataract surgery, despite it being the only effective treatment. The research underscores the role of doctor-patient relationships in medical ...

Golden Eyes: How Gold Nanoparticles May One Day Help to Restore People's Vision

Apr. 16, 2025 — A team of researchers has identified a promising new approach that may one day help to restore vision in people affected by macular degeneration and other retinal ...

Researchers Have Mapped the Hidden Control System of Vision

Apr. 15, 2025 — The smallest control system of vision in mammals has been mapped -- a discovery that opens entirely new insights into how our vision works and how it can be affected by ...

New Method for Detecting Nanoplastics in Body Fluids

Apr. 14, 2025 — Microplastics and the much smaller nanoplastics enter the human body in various ways, for example through food or the air we breathe. A large proportion is excreted, but a certain amount remains in organs, blood and other body fluids. Scientists ...

Retinal Therapy May Restore Lost Vision

Apr. 2, 2025 — Researchers have successfully developed a novel drug to restore vision. The treatment method restores vision through retinal nerve ...

Managing Your Diabetes Can Help Prevent Associated Vision Loss

Mar. 12, 2025 — Although there is no cure, diabetic retinal disease treatment has improved over the past two ...

AI Revolutionizes Glaucoma Care: Specialist-Level Screening System

Mar. 3, 2025 — Glaucoma is called the 'silent thief of sight' as many don't notice until significant, irreversible vision loss has already occurred. A revolutionary early screening tool using AI may stop this thief dead in its ...

Stem Cell Transplant Clears Clinical Safety Hurdle for the Treatment of Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Feb. 27, 2025 — Wet AMD in its early stages can be treated with drugs to reduce the formation of new blood vessels, but this treatment is inefficient in cases where blood vessel formation is already in its advanced ...

New Study Uncovers How Genes Influence Retinal Aging and Brain Health

Feb. 18, 2025 — Researchers used mice with nine different genetic backgrounds to identify factors influencing eye aging, paving the way for eye-based diagnostics for neurodegenerative ...

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Study Shows Effectiveness of Method to Stem Nearsightedness

Jan. 16, 2025 — A new report shows the benefit of wearing contact lenses for slowing myopia has a lasting effect -- good news since 50% of the world (5 billion people) will likely be nearsighted by ...

New Virtual Reality-Tested System Shows Promise in Aiding Navigation of People With Blindness or Low Vision

Dec. 17, 2024 — A new study offers hope for people who are blind or have low vision (pBLV) through an innovative navigation system that was tested using virtual ...

DNA Damage Is Key Factor in Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Dec. 3, 2024 — A research team has discovered that accumulated DNA damage in the retina is a key contributor to age-related macular degeneration and that targeting specific retinal cell types may lead to treatments ...

Brain-Based Visual Impairment in Children

Nov. 19, 2024 — Experts have identified five elements of a brain-based condition that has emerged as a leading cause of vision impairment starting in childhood in the United States and other industrialized nations. ...

Subtle Eye Movements Optimize Vision

Oct. 29, 2024 — Our ability to see starts with the light-sensitive photoreceptor cells in our eyes. A specific region of the retina, termed fovea, is responsible for sharp vision. Here, the color-sensitive cone ...

Researchers Use AI to Help People See More Clearly

Oct. 2, 2024 — A serious, irreversible eye disease known as myopic maculopathy is on the ...

Scientists Discover Gene Responsible for Rare, Inherited Eye Disease

Sep. 26, 2024 — Scientists have identified a gene responsible for some inherited retinal diseases (IRDs), which are a group of disorders that damage the eye's light-sensing retina and threatens vision. Though IRDs ...

Studies Point to Potential Development of a Cataract Drug

Sep. 18, 2024 — Researchers identified a protein, known as RNF114, that reverses cataracts, a clouding of the eye's lens that occurs commonly in people as they age. The study, which was conducted in the 13-lined ...

New Gene Therapy Offers Promise for Treating Glaucoma -- As Well as AMD

Sep. 9, 2024 — Scientists developed a highly promising gene therapy to treat glaucoma -- a debilitating eye condition that can lead to complete vision loss, and which affects around 80 million people worldwide. The ...

100x Improvement in Sight Seen After Gene Therapy Trial

Sep. 6, 2024 — The vision of people with a rare inherited condition that causes them to lose much of their sight early in childhood was 100 times better after they received gene therapy to address the genetic ...

Declining Senses Can Impact Mental Health and Loneliness in Aging Adults

Aug. 22, 2024 — Researchers found that people who develop sensory disabilities with age tend to have worse mental health, and that different types of sensory disability are associated with different aspects of ...

A Brain Fingerprint: Study Uncovers Unique Brain Plasticity in People Born Blind

July 30, 2024 — Neuroscientists reveal that the part of the brain that receives and processes visual information in sighted people develops a unique connectivity pattern in people born blind. They say this pattern ...

Biomarkers Reveal How Patients With Glaucoma May Respond to Treatment

July 12, 2024 — Markers in the blood that predict whether glaucoma patients are at higher risk of continued loss of vision following conventional treatment have been identified by ...

Mapping the Mind With BARseq

June 3, 2024 — A team has scaled up the powerful brain-mapping tool BARseq. The technology is now capable of mapping millions of neurons throughout the brain. Identifying how neural connections are wired up over ...

Innovative 3D Printing Could Revolutionize Treatment for Cataracts and Other Eye Conditions

May 20, 2024 — Rsearchers have developed the first 3D printable ocular resins, marking a significant breakthrough in manufacturing specialist lenses for implantation in the human ...

Imaging Fibrous Structure Abnormalities of the White of the Eye in Myopathic Patients

May 16, 2024 — Abnormalities in the shape of the sclera, the white of the eye, can cause various complications and lead to blindness. However, techniques to observe the sclera in detail, such as its fibrous ...

Virus That Causes COVID-19 Can Penetrate Blood-Retinal Barrier and Could Damage Vision

May 14, 2024 — Researchers have discovered the virus that causes COVID-19 can breach the protective blood-retinal-barrier with potential long-term consequences in the ...

Eye Care: Taking Electroretinography to the Next Level With a Soft Multi-Electrode System

May 13, 2024 — Electroretinography (ERG), which involves measuring electric potential in the retina, is a powerful tool for diagnosing and studying ocular diseases. However, multi-electrode systems for ERG are ...

'Smart' Contact Lenses Could Someday Enable Wireless Glaucoma Detection

May 9, 2024 — Most people with early-stage glaucoma don't know they have it, even though early treatment is key to reducing vision loss. While detecting a subtle increase in eye pressure helps doctors to ...

Breakthrough Paves the Way for Next Generation of Vision Implants

May 7, 2024 — A group of researchers have created an exceptionally small implant, with electrodes the size of a single neuron that can also remain intact in the body over time -- a unique combination that holds ...

Participants of Pioneering CRISPR Gene Editing Trial See Vision Improve

May 6, 2024 — About 79% of clinical trial participants experienced measurable improvement after receiving experimental, CRISPR-based gene editing that is designed to fix a rare form of blindness, according to a ...

Visual Prosthesis Simulator Offers a Glimpse Into the Future

Feb. 27, 2024 — Researchers have developed a simulator that enables artificial visual observations for research into the visual prosthesis. This open source tool is available to researchers and offers those who are ...

Spiral-Shaped Lens Provides Clear Vision at a Range of Distances and Lighting Conditions

Feb. 8, 2024 — Researchers have developed a spiral-shaped lens that maintains clear focus at different distances in varying light conditions. The new lens works much like progressive lenses used for vision ...

Organic Compound Found in Trees Could Prevent Contact Lens Eye Infections

Feb. 7, 2024 — Researchers say hydroquinine could be an effective naturally occurring disinfecting solution for contact lenses and help combat keratitis ...

Using fMRI, New Vision Study Finds Promising Model for Restoring Cone Function

Jan. 26, 2024 — Researchers identified a retinal disease to evaluate the success of gene and cell replacement ...

Retinal Imaging and Genetics Data Used to Predict Future Disease Risk

Jan. 24, 2024 — In a new study, researchers combined OCT retinal imaging, genetics and big data to estimate how likely a person is to develop eye and systemic diseases in the future. They found significant ...

Study With Over 11,000 Individuals of African Descent Finds Genetic Variants Linked to Glaucoma

Jan. 18, 2024 — Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness around the globe, affecting up to 44 million people. Although people of African ancestry are most frequently and severely affected by this ...

Machine Learning Sees Into the Future to Prevent Sight Loss in Humans

Dec. 13, 2023 — Researchers developed machine-learning models to predict visual acuity in patients with high myopia. A cohort study of 967 patients was used to evaluate the models. The results show that a regression ...

Cell Types in the Eye Have Ancient Evolutionary Origins

Dec. 13, 2023 — In a comparative analysis across vertebrates of the many cell types in the retina -- mice alone have 130 types -- researchers concluded that most cell types have an ancient evolutionary history. ...

A Farsighted Approach to Tackle Nearsightedness

Dec. 5, 2023 — As humans age, our eyes adjust based on how we use them, growing or shortening to focus where needed, and we now know that blurred input to the eye while the eye is growing causes myopia. It is so ...