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The Eye Limits the Brain’s Learning Potential
The concept of a critical period for visual development early in life during which sensory experience is essential to normal neural development is now well established. However recent evidence...
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Dreaming in color after 20 years: Eye implant restores vision to blind patient
It was the ‘magic moment’ that released Chris James from ten years of blindness. Doctors switched on a microchip that had been inserted into the back of his eye three weeks earlier. After a decade of...
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Biologists grow human-eye precursor from stem cells
A stem-cell biologist has had an eye-opening success in his latest effort to mimic mammalian organ development in vitro. Yoshiki Sasai of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CBD) in Kobe,...
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The Telescopic Eye: New surgery turns Colorado woman’s damaged eye into a...
Dr. Starck Johnson cuts a small hole in the right eye of Doris Ekblad-Olson, 82, in preparation for Tuesday’s operation. Ekblad-Olson suffers from “wet” macular degeneration, where blood vessels are...
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0,1: Turn the light off by blinking.
An interactive installation based on Arduino. The lights in the gallery are temporarily turned off whenever the person wearing the glasses blinks. It all happens so fast that the person wearing the...
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Tissue engineering: The brainmaker
With his knack for knowing what stem cells want, Yoshiki Sasai has grown an eye and parts of a brain in a dish. In December 2010, Robin Ali became suddenly excited by the usually mundane task of...
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Eye-drawings
Eye-drawings, «Augenzeichnungen», are drawings done directly with the eyes, without the slightest interference of the hands – the organ of perception being turned into the organ of expression. By...
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Gender Visual Dynamics
Everyone knows that men and women tend to hold different views on certain things. However, new research by scientists from the University of Bristol and published in PLoS ONE indicates that this may...
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The Eye, the Brain, and What happens during Death Experience
Scout motto is “be prepared,” but it’s hard to be prepared for death, be it our own or a loved one’s. Too much is unknown about what dying feels like or what, if anything, happens after you die to...
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A blind man has had his sight restored after pioneering surgery that involved...
Ian Tibbetts, 43, who first damaged his eye in an industrial accident when scrap metal ripped his cornea in six places, had his sight restored by the radical operation, chronicled in the new BBC...
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