The most common form of color blindness is red-green color blindness. This happens when people are born without the type of ...

Researchers have discovered that when photoreceptor cells in the retina are damaged, microglia, or the brain’s immune cells, ...

Lawrence Sincich, Ph.D. Lawrence Sincich, Ph.D., professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry was ...

During most eye infections or injuries, neutrophils, immune cells found in the blood, are usually the first line of defense.

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Summary: Unlike most tissues, the retina doesn’t summon neutrophils—the body’s typical first responders—when injured. Instead ...

While vitamins are found in a wide range of everyday foods, an expert has shared the four foods that provide the widest variety ...

In vertebrate retinas, specialized photoreceptors responsible for color vision (cone cells) arrange themselves in patterns known as the "cone mosaic." Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of ...

Normally, we perceive color through a combination of input from three types of cone cells—each tuned to short, medium, or long wavelengths of light.

Scientists at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have discovered that certain retinal cells can rewire themselves when vision begins to deteriorate in ...

During most eye infections or injuries, neutrophils, immune cells found in the blood, are usually the first line of defense. However, researchers at the Flaum Eye Institute and Del Monte Institute for ...

The Vision Center at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is developing a protocol for a phase 1 clinical trial for the first gene ...