A research team has established an innovative intracranial pre-olivary pretectal nucleus (OPN) optic tract injury model ...

He praised the NYU team’s “audacity” in even aiming for optic nerve repair and hopes the transplant will spur more research. “We’re really on the precipice of being able to do this ...

Washington said their research will need to tackle restoring vision after an eye transplant by regrowing or regenerating the ...

The hypothesis that it disrupts the function of retinal ganglion cell axons by increasing mechanical forces on the lamina cribrosa of the optic nerve head has received considerable experimental ...

If the optic nerve of a newt is cut and its eye is turned through 180 degrees, the nerve regenerates and the animal sees upside down. Such results deeply affect our picture of how the nervous ...