There’s an old saying, attributed to writers from Cicero to Shakespeare, that says the eyes are the windows to the soul. But it may be more accurate to say that your eyes, and in particular your ...

A year on, US scientists have provided an update on the patient who received the world's first whole eye transplant combined with a facial transplant. Although the patient cannot see through his new ...

How is a healthy retina cell like a tumor cell? It hijacks an energy-producing chemical reaction to churn out molecular building blocks. When tumor cells do it, they use the building blocks to make ...

MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (07/10/2025) — A University of Minnesota Medical School-led research team discovered that a cancer signaling pathway has previously unrecognized roles in retina and brain blood ...

New research shows that a protein expressed in the human retina can sense magnetic fields when implanted into Drosophila, reopening an area of sensory biology in humans for further exploration. For ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A University at Buffalo optical engineer has created a silicon chip that mimics the structure and functionality of an octopus retina. Called the o-retina, the chip one day may give ...