Original broadcast date: September 13, 2009 There are instances in clinical research when the clinical outcome goals of the study are superseded by an unexpected discovery. Researchers from the University of Florida reported in the August 13, 2009 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine that the retinas of adults treated with a gene [...]

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One of the biomedical engineering bottlenecks in constructing an artificial eye is that the eye is a curved object or hemispherical providing it with the ability to view a wide field of view without distortion. This is a feat that, up to now, electronic microchip technology has not been able to mimic. Researchers at the [...]

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There is an experimental surgical approach using an implantable lens to prevent lazy eye or amblyopia in children. These particular children have either been diagnosed too late or their lazy eye was too severe for standard treatment. Dr. Paul Dougherty, M.D., medical director of Dougherty Laser Vision, Clinical Instructor of Ophthalmology at the Jules Stein [...]

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Eye diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration result in the loss of vision in a slow and unrelenting fashion due to the deteriorating and damaged retina. A team of scientists at the Schepens Eye Research Institute and Harvard Medical School has published a study in the March issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual [...]

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