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The award ceremony at this year’s on-line Young Researcher Vision Camp saw only brilliant winners. The first prize went to Cologne for Gwen Musial talk of a novel tissue analysis. The 2nd and 3rd prize went to Tuebingen for Pietro de Angeli’s talk on CRISPR/Cas9-based rescue and Yannik Sauer’s...
» ZEISS Presentation Award @ Young Researcher Vision Camp 2021
New findings on magnetic sensing in birds are presented by an international team of researchers led by Oldenburg biologist Henrik Mouritsen. The results are published in the journal Nature.
» The Quantum Sense in the Retina of Birds
The white of our eye is something special. The sclera is devoid of pigment, which is why we can easily follow where our counterpart is looking. Nature has arranged it this way to facilitate this kind of glance-based communication. That is at least the traditional notion among scientists. A team of...
» Looking the ape in the eye – Cooperative eye hypothesis questioned
Researchers from the Institute of Neurobiology at the National University of Mexico in Querétaro and the Institute of Clinical Chemistry at Paracelsus Medical Private University in Nuremberg identified the bioactive site of vasoinhibin, a natural protein that inhibits the growth of new blood...
» Bioactive site of vasoinhibin identified: possible application as a drug for cancer and retinal diseases
70 years ago, the founders had a dream – and that dream endures in the scientists and Nobel Laureates of the future.
» International Forum for Exchange
Complete congenital night blindness (CCNCS) is an incurable hereditary disease and a group of rare, clinically and genetically heterogeneous retinal disorders.
» Restoration of night vision in adult mice
Eye2Gene is a web tool devised by University College London Moorfields Ophthalmic Reading Centre for genetic prediction of inherited retinal disease using machine learning.
» Eye2Gene wins Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care Award
The visual thalamus is classically known to relay visual stimuli coming from the retina to the cerebral cortex. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology now show that although neurons in the mouse visual thalamus connect to both eyes, they establish strong functional connections...
» Picky neurons
A yearly celebration of the people and the initiatives at our institute.
» Institute of Ophthalmology (IOO) Day 2021 at University College London
The life-saving diabetic medication insulin, developed at the University of Toronto 100 years ago, was the first biologic therapy - a protein to treat disease. A century later, a new biologic therapy also developed by researchers at U of T has potential to reverse a common complication of diabetes.
» New antibody therapy may reverse diabetic retinopathy and other eye conditions