NEI Team in Liberia Investigates Ocular Effects Among Ebola Survivors
Following the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa that took the lives of more than 11,200 people in the region, the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has deployed a team of clinicians and technical experts to Monrovia, Liberia to investigate the effects of Ebola on the eye. (Source: News from NEI)
Source: News from NEI - September 8, 2015 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Jason Source Type: news
Circuit in the Eye Relies on Built-In Delay to See Small Moving Objects
When we move our head, the whole visual world moves across our eyes. Yet we can still make out a bee buzzing by or a hawk flying overhead, thanks to unique cells in the eye called object motion sensors. A new study on mice helps explain how these cells do their job, and may bring scientists closer to understanding how complex circuits are formed throughout the nervous system. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health, and was published online in Nature.
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Source: News from NEI - August 31, 2015 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Jason Source Type: news
NIH Study Shows no Benefit of Omega-3 or Other Nutritional Supplements for Cognitive Decline
While some research suggests that a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids can protect brain health, a large clinical trial by researchers at the National Institutes of Health found that omega-3 supplements did not slow cognitive decline in older persons. With 4,000 patients followed over a five-year period, the study is one of the largest and longest of its kind. It was published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Source: News from NEI - August 24, 2015 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Jason Source Type: news
In Uveitis, Bacteria in Gut May Instruct Immune Cells to Attack the Eye
The inflammatory eye disorder autoimmune uveitis occurs when a person’s immune system goes awry, attacking proteins in the eye. What spurs this response is a mystery, but now a study on mice suggests that bacteria in the gut may provide a kind of training ground for immune cells to attack the eye. The study was conducted by researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health.
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Source: News from NEI - August 18, 2015 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Jason Source Type: news
Dr. Patricia Cabrera: Learning Genetics and Linking NEI to the Philippines
A delegation from the University of the Philippines (UP) and the Philippine National Institutes of Health recently visited NEI on May 21, 2015. It was an opportunity to renew old collaborations and discuss new ones—among them, genetic research projects planned by Dr. Patricia Cabrera, a visiting fellow at NEI. (Source: News from NEI)
Source: News from NEI - August 13, 2015 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Jason Source Type: news
With LCA Gene Therapy, a Rare Glimpse of the Adult Brain Adapting to New Experience
When people lose the ability to see, how do the visual parts of the brain change in response? And if they regain their sight, are the changes reversed? Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania took a rare opportunity to address these questions by looking at how the brains of people with a genetic, blinding eye disease—Leber’s congenital amaurosis (LCA)—responded to an experimental gene therapy. (Source: News from NEI)
Source: News from NEI - August 4, 2015 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Jason Source Type: news
Defective Lens Protein Implicated in Cataract Shown Culprit in Presbyopia
Loss or defects of a protein previously shown to play a key a role in cataract, the clouding of the lens that commonly strikes people in their seventies, has now been shown to contribute to presbyopia, the forty-something phenomenon when reading a menu by candlelight and threading a needle become newfound challenges. (Source: News from NEI)
Source: News from NEI - August 4, 2015 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Jason Source Type: news
Trachoma Risk Tied to Sleeping Near Cooking Fires, Lack of Ventilation
Children who sleep in unventilated rooms with cooking fires are at greater risk for severe trachoma, a leading cause of preventable blindness in developing countries, according to the findings of a recent study conducted in Tanzania. The study was supported by the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. (Source: News from NEI)
Source: News from NEI - August 3, 2015 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Jason Source Type: news
In Blinding Eye Disease, Trash-Collecting Cells go Awry, Accelerate Damage
Spider-like cells inside the brain, spinal cord and eye hunt for invaders, capturing and then devouring them. These cells, called microglia, often play a beneficial role by helping to clear trash and protect the central nervous system against infection. But a new study by researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI) shows that they also accelerate damage wrought by blinding eye disorders, such as retinitis pigmentosa. NEI is part of the National Institutes of Health.
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Source: News from NEI - June 30, 2015 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Jason Source Type: news
Study Finds Potential New Drug Target for Diabetic Eye Disease
Researchers funded in part by the National Eye Institute (NEI) have identified a protein involved in an advanced stage of diabetic retinopathy, a diabetic eye disease that threatens vision. The discovery may help explain why current treatments don’t help all patients and suggests a novel approach for research into therapies. (Source: News from NEI)
Source: News from NEI - June 23, 2015 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Jason Source Type: news
Study of Ebola Survivors Opens in Liberia
The Liberia-U.S. clinical research partnership known as PREVAIL has launched a study of people in Liberia who have survived Ebola virus disease (EVD) within the past two years. The study investigators hope to better understand the long-term health consequences of EVD, determine if survivors develop immunity that will protect them from future Ebola infection, and assess whether previously EVD-infected individuals can transmit infection to close contacts and sexual partners. (Source: News from NEI)
Source: News from NEI - June 17, 2015 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Jason Source Type: news
The Brain’s Autofocus System Helps Stabilize Vision Despite Motion
Much like the automatic focus of a camera, our eyes and brains must constantly recalibrate so that we can get a clear view of the changing—and always moving—world around us. Recently, two studies funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI) show how the circuitry for this eye-brain coordination is assembled during early embryonic development. (Source: News from NEI)
Source: News from NEI - May 27, 2015 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Jason Source Type: news
Two NEI Grantees Awarded Helen Keller Prize
Two researchers funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI), both pioneers in the study of low vision, received the Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research on May 5, in Denver. The Helen Keller Foundation for Research and Education, and BrightFocus Foundation, presented the award to Gordon E. (Source: News from NEI)
Source: News from NEI - May 13, 2015 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Jason Source Type: news
