News tagged with eye muscles


'Lazy eye' discovery of how an old gene learns new tricks

'Lazy eye' discovery of how an old gene learns new tricks

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 25, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (11) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have made a discovery which could lead the way for new treatments into a rare eye disorder which if not treated can result in permanent blindness in childhood.





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Eye muscles -- those go-getters of the anatomical world

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 01, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The eye, often called the window to the soul, may become a window to the mysteries of muscular dystrophy, a debilitating muscle disease that often leads to death in early adulthood.


Superfast muscles in songbirds

Superfast muscles in songbirds

Biology /

created Jul 09, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Certain songbirds can contract their vocal muscles 100 times faster than humans can blink an eye – placing the birds with a handful of animals that have evolved superfast muscles, University of Utah researchers ...


Here's venom in your eye: Spitting cobras hit their mark

Biology /

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Spitting cobras have an exceptional ability to spray venom into eyes of potential attackers. A new study published in Physiological and Biochemical Zoology reveals how these snakes maximize their chances of hitting the ta ...


U of T research finds glycine could be key to REM Sleep Behavior Disorder

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 27, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

There is new promise on the horizon for those who suffer from REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder (RBD) according to researchers at the University of Toronto.


One-eyed filmmaker conceals camera in prosthetic (AP)

One-eyed filmmaker conceals camera in prosthetic

Technology / Hi Tech

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

(AP) -- A one-eyed documentary filmmaker is preparing to work with a video camera concealed inside a prosthetic eye, hoping to secretly record people for a project commenting on the global spread of surveillance ...


Fresh fossil evidence of eye forerunner uncovered

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 12, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Ancient armoured fish fossils from Australia present some of the first definite fossil evidence of a forerunner to the human eye, a scientist from The Australian National University says.


I there but caught a glimpse... of a 410 million-year-old eye or two

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 06, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (20) | comments 0

A University of Queensland researcher has uncovered the oldest known fossilised eye capsules from jawed fishes.


Genetic mutation identified for eye complaint

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 24, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

An international research collaboration including research teams from the Children's Hospital in Boston (USA), King's College London and the Peninsula Medical School, has identified a gene that, when mutated, causes Duane ...


Study breaks ground in revealing how neurons generate movement

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 24, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

When the eye tracks a bird’s flight across the sky, the visual experience is normally smooth, without interruption. But underlying this behavior is a complex coordination of neurons that has remained mysterious to scientists. ...


Toad research could leapfrog to new muscle model

Toad research could leapfrog to new muscle model

Biology /

created Jun 02, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A toad sits at a pond's edge eyeing a cricket on a blade of grass. In the blink of an eye, the toad snares the insect with its tongue. This deceptively simple, remarkably fast feeding action offers a new look ...



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