Back in October, we ran a story about a rumor that suggested Samsung may by-pass a fingerprint scanner and jump, instead, directly to an eye scanner to authenticate its smartphone owner, although ...

It seems like the next “Big Thing” may be staring you right in your face – eye scanning. There is a now a race to find a new way to identify us for security reasons as we move from paper to password ...

In a large-scale EU project, in which MedUni Vienna is working alongside international partners, the capabilities of optical coherence tomography (OCT) and Raman spectroscopy have been combined in a ...

Alzheimer’s is a ruinous brain disease that causes progressive memory loss. For years, we lacked a practical way to detect it — but new evidence suggests that a non-invasive eye scan could spot early ...

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Many have heard the phrase "the eyes are the window to the soul." Now, they're also giving researchers clues into how old a person truly is. In a study released Tuesday in Journal Gerontology: ...

Researchers from across the United States have developed a device that scans the eye for several types of life-threatening diseases. The device looks for tiny details at the back of the eye that could ...

Diagnosing Parkinson's disease is still a challenge for doctors. Complex neurological exams can help identify the disease after symptoms appear but detecting the disease early is vital to better ...

Presently, for a definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, doctors have to perform a PET scan of patients' brains. Not only is it expensive, but it also requires the patient to be injected with ...