Experimental Eye Research

  • close up of medium skin toned woman's eye with hazel colored iris

    Insights on diabetic retinopathy

    A drug that targets multiple pathogenic steps in diabetic retinopathy may be an ideal therapeutic strategy for the disease, Vanderbilt researchers report. Read More

    Jan 23, 2020

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    In a zebrafish’s eye

    Vanderbilt investigators demonstrate that a certain eye lens protein is evolutionarily conserved between zebrafish and rat, suggesting that zebrafish can be used as a model system to understand eye lens disorders such as cataracts. Read More

    Jul 29, 2015