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A Public Release from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions indicates that researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have reported discoveries of many active peptides that may “slow or stop the growth of cells that make up new blood vessels.” Aleksander Popel PhD, Professor of

Healionics Corporation, has announced an “agreement with TR BioSurgical, LLC (TRBIO) for use of its flagship STAR™ biomaterial scaffold in a veterinary glaucoma implant. Under this exclusive, multi-year agreement, Healionics will provide its STAR biomaterial scaffold for TRBIO’s TR-ClarifEYE, an

Duke University biomedical engineers have presented an ultrasound probe which they indicate: “… is powerful enough to provide detailed, 3-D images.” “… works like an insect’s compound eye, blending images from 108 miniature transducers working together.” “… small enough to ride along at the tip of

Orbis International has informed: “China has a blind population estimated at 5 to 6 million, which accounts for 18 percent of the world’s blind.: “The major causes of blindness in China include cataract, childhood eye diseases, cornea diseases, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy.” “Of the roughly

What relationship could there be between zinc and vision? “Not much is known about the relationship between zinc and the eye.” A Release from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, reports: “Paradoxically, the photoreceptor cells in our retinas release more of their

Smart contact lenses with electronic displays, pressure gauges, with programmable drug delivery systems or other sustained drug delivery mechanisms may be possible, using techniques now being developed at a number of centers.

Researchers from the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Optometry, Queensland University of Technology, in Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia and from Eurolens Research, The University of Manchester, in Manchester, United Kingdom, have noted several points with reference to

Researchers from Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, have indicated that eyeglasses “embedded with a telescope promise to make it easier for people with impaired vision to drive and do other activities requiring sharper distance vision.” More information from a Public Release

Calling all physically fit carers, friends and relatives of ME patients. Your help is very urgently needed and may be of great assistance to the UK ME community. Professor Basant Puri urgently needs 10 PHYSICALLY FIT individuals between the ages of 18 to 55 to contact him concerning participation in his current ME/CFS biomedical brain studies on ME/CFS patients.

Researchers from Eurolens Research, University of Manchester, in Manchester, United Kingdom; and from the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, and School of Optometry, Queensland University of Technology, in  Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia; have reported: “There is an apparent trend