LOS ANGELES (March 18, 2014) – Investigators at the Cedars-Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute have discovered eye abnormalities that may help reveal features of early-stage Alzheimer's disease.

The intricacy and seeming perfection of the eye, both as an object of anatomical beauty and as a working machine, have worried and intrigued scientists, philosophers and zealots, especially during the ...

The colored part of the eye surrounding the pupil is called the iris. It automatically regulates the amount of light entering the eyes by regulating the size of the pupil. Light is the primary ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Living in an area with high deprivation was associated with a thinner retinal nerve fiber layer. Researchers ...

α-Crystallin is a major lens protein, comprising up to 40% of total lens proteins, where its structural function is to assist in maintaining the proper refractive index in the lens. In addition to its ...

The human eye lens consists of a highly concentrated mix of several proteins. Protective proteins prevent these proteins from aggregating and clumping. If this protective function fails, the lens ...

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) has developed a retina-mimicking eye phantom that faithfully ...

Both Vitamin A and Vitamin C are important to eye health, with Vitamin A being important to normal vision, particularly in dim light, and Vitamin C potentially safeguarding against certain eye disease ...

Eye abnormalities may help reveal features of early-stage Alzheimer’s disease, researchers have discovered. Using a novel laboratory rat model of Alzheimer’s disease and high-resolution imaging ...