In recent decades, the microbiome has emerged as a dynamic ecosystem, an “invisible organ” that plays a crucial role in systemic health and, more recently, in ophthalmology.When naturally balanced, ...

Bar Harbor, Maine– While studying mice with a mutant gene whose counterpart causes inherited glaucoma in humans, researchers have discovered a second gene mutation that worsens the structural eye ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The estimate is based on data from nearly 6,800 births that occurred in the U.S. and its territories from ...

Researchers from the National Eye Institute (NEI) have developed a gene therapy that rescues cilia defects in retinal cells affected by a type of Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a disease that ...

An opthalmologist, Zainab Akinbode, has advised Nigerians to desist from using substances such as breast milk and urine as remedies to treat eye defects. Dr. Akinbode said such practices could cause ...

When University of Delaware doctoral student Sandeep Aryal took the initiative to learn additional research techniques to study proteins present in the eye, his work resulted in the discovery of a new ...

A new study finds that Zika infection during the first trimester of pregnancy can impact fetal retinal development and cause congenital ocular anomalies. The virus does not appear to affect ocular ...

Within three days last week, no fewer than 200 residents with eye defects, especially cataract and glaucoma, benefitted from the humanitarian gesture of the Rotary Club of Agege (District 9110, ...