vision
Google has an idea for injecting a computer into your eyeball
Posted in Medicine on 1st May, 2016
by Alex Muller
A patent filed in 2014 and published Thursday describes a device that could correct vision without putting contacts in or wearing glasses everyday.
Gene therapy reverses sight loss and is long-lasting
Posted in Medicine on 29th Apr, 2016
by Alex Muller
A genetic therapy has improved the vision of patients who would otherwise have gone blind. The improvement is long-lasting so the therapy is suitable as a treatment.
Scientists pinpoint where in the brain we process facial expressions
Posted in Science on 21st Apr, 2016
by Alex Muller
While we're not conscious of it, when you're looking at someone making a facial expression, there's a whole part of our brains that deals with decoding the information.
Outdoor light can slow or reduce nearsightedness
Posted in Science on 8th Apr, 2016
by Alex Muller
Kids should be spending at least an hour a day to prevent it, study shows.
3D 'mini-retinas' grown from mouse and human stem cells
Posted in Science on 4th Apr, 2016
by Alex Muller
Stem cell technologies have the potential to develop therapies for the treatment of diseases such as age-related blindness.