Giant Squid Eyes

A recent paper by Dan-Eric Nilsson, Eric J. Warrant, Sönke Johnsen, Roger Hanlon and Nadav Shashar reports on the eyes of some of the most mysterious of creatures, Architeuthis and Mesonychoteuthis, the giant and colossal deep sea squid respectively. We here at Webvision love all things retina and would deeply love to get our hands …

Great Review: Defective Trafficking of Rhodopsin and Its Role In Retinal Degenerations

This is a great review paper on the role of rhodopsin trafficking and its influence on retinal degenerative disease by TJ Hollingsworth and Alecia Gross.  Rhodopsin delocalization in rod photoreceptors has been recognized for some time as one of the first indications of retinal photoreceptor cell stress in retinal degenerative diseases, so I was intrigued …

Pseudoexfoliation

This image demonstrates pseudo-exfoliation syndrome of the lens capsule.   Photograph was made by James Gilman of the Moran Eye Center using broad tangential illumination with a Zeiss photo slitlamp and a Nikon D-1X camera.