Final STS-135 Landing
Looking At The Sky…
Artisan Lens
The artisan lens is an anterior chamber lens used to treat patients with high myopia. Photograph was made by James Gilman of the Moran Eye Center using sclerotic scatter illumination with a Zeiss photo slitlamp and a Nikon D-1X camera.
Ophthalmologic Care In The 1800s
CBS news has a post up with a collection of photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries of ophthalmologic care from the extensive and excellent archives of The Burns Archive, one of the largest collections of early medical photography in the world curated by Dr. Stanley B. Burns. Note: some images are potentially disturbing. …
A Photographic Study of The Fly
Webvision Voted First Place in Best Websites 2011 in Vision Research and Ophthalmology
Webvision has just been voted First Place in the TOP 10 Websites in Vision Research and Ophthalmology. Second place went to the Atlas of Ophthalmology, Third to the National Eye Institute, Fourth to European Vision Institute, Fifth to the Institut de la Vision, Sixth to Foundation Fighting Blindness Canada, Seventh to The Nuffield Laboratory of …
Notable Paper: Enzymatic Properties and Regulation of the Native Isozymes of Retinal Membrane Guanylate Cyclase (RetGC) from Mouse Photoreceptors
This paper is a collaboration of Dr. Wolfgang Baehr and two experts in guanylate cyclase enzymology, Dr. Alexander Dizhoor, and Dr. Kris Palczewski representing a long standing collaboration that has generated over fifty papers going back to 1994. The results are based on animal models generated at the University of Utah and elucidate the contribution of …