Foveal Avascular Zone
This is normal fluorescein angiogram of a human retina showing the tunic of capillaries that surround the fovea and rather nicely illustrates the Foveal Avascular Zone (FAZ) discussed in The Simple Anatomy of The Retina. Photograph was made by James Gilman of the Moran Eye Center.
Retinal Remodeling in the Tg P347L Rabbit, a Large-Eye Model of Retinal Degeneration
100 Papers You Should Read: Visual Pigments of Single Goldfish Cones
This is the fourth paper in the category, 100 Papers You Should Read (in vision science). William Rushton once said “The trouble with colour vision is the mentality of those that write on it-and of those that read. In most aspects of physiology it is sufficient to offer a fairly plausible and adequate hypothesis; but colour …
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Weekend App Experiments
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 …
The 4th of July Holiday Weekend Sans SLR
Morning Coffee
A Photographers Visit to the Moran Eye Center
A friend, renaissance man and photographer extraordinaire, Duncan Davidson visited us at the Moran Eye Center and hung out for a day of science while we performed experiments. Duncan documented some of the work we did that day in the lovely video he posted to Vimeo above. You have quite possibly seen Duncan’s work before …
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