Nanotech used to grow eye cells as a potential treatment for blindness
“Researchers have used 3D nanotechnology to successfully grow human [MORE]
Researchers use 3D bioprinting to create eye tissue
“Scientists used patient stem cells and 3D bioprinting to produce eye tissue that [MORE]
iPS cell therapies for clinical trials
Thirteen years have passed since Kyoto University’s Shinya Yamanaka demonstrated how altering four genes could [MORE]
Eye patch with microneedles
Means for delivering drugs to treat glaucoma and macular degeneration—eye drops and needle injections–are limited in several [MORE]
Human embryonic stem cell
In the 20 years since the University of Wisconsin’s James Thomson isolated the first embryonic stem cells, [MORE]
Braak staging . Parkinson’s Disease
Through imaging studies of 49 Parkinson’s patients and 54 age-matched controls, researchers in Seoul found that [MORE]
Detect Ultrasound with Light
Optical ultrasound detection is a new aspect of photoacoustic imaging, and comes from engineers at Northwestern University. [MORE]
Macular Degeneration
This past August, a patient at the Moorfield Eye Hospital in London underwent a two hour surgery which placed [MORE]
Optical Coherence Tomography
Optical coherence tomography is a technology that bends infrared light in examining eyes for such things as [MORE]
Bionic eye diagram
Bioengineers at Monash University in Australia have developed a “bionic eye” that bypasses the human optic [MORE]
Stem Cell Clinical Trials
This piece reports on two groups, in Japan and the United States, that are applying stem [MORE]
Implanted Eye Telescope
Last year, Tagline noticed the development of a miniature telescope that could be implanted to replace the [MORE]
VisionCare Telescope
VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies (Saratoga, CA) has developed a small (pencil eraser size) telescope that can be implanted in the [MORE]