Innovations in AMD Research
Biomedical research has led to both increased knowledge of many diseases and treatments that improve outcomes for patients. This includes research into age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Scientists at the National Institutes for Health (NIH) and Washington University at St. Louis have developed separate techniques that can lead to improved treatments for this disease. Scientists at […]
The Science of Seeing: Unraveling Human Vision & Primate Color Perception
Call us biased, but we think vision is very cool. The images that our eye sees are encoded as visual information in the brain and the images enable us to see, navigate and learn. No wonder the eyes are considered the front of the brain, and biomedical research is uncovering different aspects of vision that […]
Research
Thanks to biomedical research, our understanding of the human body is evolving and this has led to treatments that improve health outcomes. This includes vision research and as a result, more is being learned about what leads to amblyopia and a possible treatment for age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Amblyopia Amblyopia, also known as lazy eye, […]