A stained vertical wild-type retinal section (left) and a schematic representation of retinal tissue (right). (image from Cell reports under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works license) Researchers from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona have discovered a ...

Toshiba recently exhibited its next-generation display technology aimed at mobile phones and portable electronics. The new display technology has the highest pixels per inch to date and it can reach HD resolution on a 4-inch display – allowing the next ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have recently built a spherical camera that follows the form and function of a human eye by building a circuit onto a curved surface, allowing a wide field of view that can’t ...

Researchers working for the Boston Retinal Implant Project have been developing a bionic eye implant that could restore the eye sight of people who suffer from age-related blindness. Although the bionic eye will only help individuals that were born with ...

In collaboration between high-energy physicists from the University of California in Santa Cruz, and neuroscientists from the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, a ganglion cell in the retina of primates was found to react to movement. The cell was ...