Her study showed that measuring the level of autofluorescence in the lens of the eye can predict who will develop type 2 diabetes in future, and prediabetes, caused by impaired glucose tolerance.

Your eyes start having trouble focusing on objects close up, a process that almost always starts in your 40s. Doctors call that presbyopia. What causes presbyopia? Over time, the lens of the eye ...

Therefore, thorough examination of lens, retina, and optic nerve are pivotal parts of a regular full eye check-up. Cataract is a condition causing the lens of the eye to become opaque, resulting ...

A cure for congenital sight impairment caused by lens damage is closer following new research. Scientists in Australia are closer to growing parts of the human eye in the lab. They have, for the ...

When people need reading glasses at 45 or older, that's presbyopia at work. To correct that, you have to do something to the lens of the eye, and Lasik works on the cornea, not the lens.

THE lens of the eye can be considered as a transparent sac of proteins and as such should be amenable to examination with transmitted polarized monochromatic light. The results obtained when the ...

At the heart of the lens is an Arm M0 processor and a Micro LED display with 14,000 pixels per inch. It's just 0.02 inches (0.5 mm) in diameter with a 1.8-micron pixel pitch. Perkins claimed it's ...

In the April 2011 statement on tissue reactions and in Publication 118 of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, a reduction in the equivalent eye dose limit in occupational exposure ...

COPENHAGEN—Efforts to detect Alzheimer's disease earlier and more cheaply are focusing on signs of the ailment in the eye and sense of smell. Scientists have found that certain biological ...

The eye lens is made up of densely packed crystallin proteins whose arrangement is such that the lens is transparent to visible light. For various reasons, including exposure to ultraviolet light ...