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The latest news, features and insight from across optics
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A 44-year-old patient who took oral acetazolamide in preparation for a hiking trip to Everest experienced “profoundly” blurred vision
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Research led by the University of Leeds has developed artificial intelligence that judges an individual’s heart attack risk from retinal scans
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Healthy middle-aged adults who regularly ate goji berries increased their macular pigment optical density
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Link made between mortality risk and the gap between what AI predicts an individual’s age to be and their actual age
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The university is looking to speak with children between the ages of six and 12, and their family members
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Scientists have explored how common myopia progression and onset is between the ages of 20 and 28
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An 88-year-old woman from Dagenham has had a 2mm wide microchip inserted under her retina as part of a Europe-wide clinical trial
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Scientists have developed a stem cell model to study the effect of genetic conditions that influence eye, skin and hair pigmentation
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A US study has found that current e-cigarette users were 34% more likely to experience visual impairment than those who had never vaped
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Clinicians from Great Ormond Street Hospital and UCL GOS Institute of Child Health are exploring the use of a new treatment in children with CLN2