Basic & Translational Research

Big data EMR mining (and some basic research) identifies a 50-year old drug that appears to protect against AMD development

A new tissue culture model of the retinal pigment epithelium may allow researchers to better understand the impacts of new interventions on the adult human retina

What does analysis of the last five years of literature on femtosecond lasers tell us about the priorities of the field, and the major contributors to it?

Sitting down with... Anneke den Hollander, Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Though highly successful, retinoblastoma radio- and chemotherapy increases the risk of secondary cancer. Is there an alternative?

New neuroscience reveals that the synaptic connections between the retinal ganglion cells and the visual cortex are not as simple as first thought

Two research teams have developed very different ways of tackling retinitis pigmentosa, but both hold great promise

Object motion detector cell function relies on a unique interneuron and a special ‘sidekick’ recognition protein

AMD is the leading cause of blindness in developed countries, and the third-leading cause in developing countries.

A novel signaling pathway that leads to choroidal neovascularization has been identified – with obvious therapeutic potential