POSTS TAGGED AS macular degeneration

Eyeball Generation

Nanotech used to grow eye cells as a potential treatment for blindness
“Researchers have used 3D nanotechnology to successfully grow human [MORE]

3D Printing of Eye Tissue

Researchers use 3D bioprinting to create eye tissue
“Scientists used patient stem cells and 3D bioprinting to produce eye tissue that [MORE]

13 Years of iPSC Therapies in Clinical Trials

iPS cell therapies for clinical trials
Thirteen years have passed since Kyoto University’s Shinya Yamanaka demonstrated how altering four genes could [MORE]

Patch with Microneedles Delivers Drugs for Eye Diseases

Eye patch with microneedles
Means for delivering drugs to treat glaucoma and macular degeneration—eye drops and needle injections–are limited in several [MORE]

Perspective on Clinical Stem Cell Therapy

Human embryonic stem cell
In the 20 years since the University of Wisconsin’s James Thomson isolated the first embryonic stem cells, [MORE]

An Eye Scan for Early Parkinson’s Diagnosis

 
Braak staging . Parkinson’s Disease
Through imaging studies of 49 Parkinson’s patients and 54 age-matched controls, researchers in Seoul found that [MORE]

Monitoring Macular Degeneration with a Contact Lens

Detect Ultrasound with Light
Optical ultrasound detection is a new aspect of photoacoustic imaging, and comes from engineers at Northwestern University. [MORE]

Wait and See

Macular Degeneration
This past August, a patient at the Moorfield Eye Hospital in London underwent a two hour surgery which placed [MORE]

New Device for Detecting Eye Diseases

Optical Coherence Tomography
Optical coherence tomography is a technology that bends infrared light in examining eyes for such things as [MORE]

Vision Restoring Brain Implant

Bionic eye diagram
Bioengineers at Monash University in Australia have developed a “bionic eye” that bypasses the human optic [MORE]

Stem Cells for Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Stem Cell Clinical Trials
This piece reports on two groups, in Japan and the United States, that are applying stem [MORE]

Eye-Implantable Mini-Telescope

Implanted Eye Telescope
Last year, Tagline noticed the development of a miniature telescope that could be implanted to replace the [MORE]

Bionic Eye

VisionCare Telescope
VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies (Saratoga, CA) has developed a small (pencil eraser size) telescope that can be implanted in the [MORE]