The ability to defocus your eyes on command is a natural one, but not everyone can do it. It’s accomplished by having the ability to relax the ciliary muscles in your eyes, which causes them to lose ...

For routine cataract cases, we like to insert our new IOL into the same place as the original human crystalline lens — into the capsular bag. In most eyes, the capsular bag provides a secure ...

Treatment-Related Mortality in Patients With Advanced-Stage Hodgkin Lymphoma: An Analysis of the German Hodgkin Study Group Tumor largest basal diameter and thickness of 7,369 patients were analyzed ...

Cilia are small hair-like organelles that extend from cells and perform many functions, including motility and signaling. Researchers have now revealed that cilia have a specialized transport hub at ...

Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a rare disease of childhood and the original ciliopathy to be identified. It leads to a variety of clinical manifestations, which often lead to a fatal outcome in ...

Scientists have developed microrobots with high propulsion efficiency in highly-viscous fluid environments, applying propulsion techniques that mimic the ciliary stroke motion of paramecia. A Korean ...

Cell biology researchers at the Department of Biology at the University of Copenhagen have made a discovery about two ciliary proteins that have previously been linked to diabetes, obesity and kidney ...

Premature infants are at risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia, or BPD, a type of lung injury associated with increased mortality. Now a new study published at the ATS 2025 International Conference shows ...