Word: retina
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...advance that could help boxers and fighting children suffering from eye trauma, Harvard researchers have found a new gene therapy that could prevent the retina from detaching after eye surgery...
Marie started to lose her vision when a condition known as retinitis pigmentosa caused the rod and cone cells in her retina to degenerate. When rod and cone cells die off, the retina is rendered insensitive to light and the result is blindness. Marie's case followed the typical pattern. First her rod cells went, leaving only a slim tunnel of vision through which she could still manage to recognize objects and read with difficulty. But then as her cone cells failed, this last narrow window on the world snapped shut and she was left completely blind - even though...
Another surprise: the brain’s pathway to the retina also controls daily activity...
Winter filled in for Harvard two years ago when Clemente missed two months with a detatched retina. The then-freshman from Topeka, Kan., exceeded all expectations, containing opposing forwards and often providing an unexpected scoring boost, regularly scoring in double-figures...
Civil libertarians expect renewed calls for a national identification card. The cards could have photographs and hard-to-falsify identifying information like handprint or retina data that could be read by scanners at, say, airline counters. If cards were required for many common transactions--renting a car, buying an airline ticket--they would be useful for keeping track of criminals and terrorists. Or you. Eva Jefferson Paterson, executive director of the Lawyers' Committee on Civil Rights Under Law in San Francisco, predicts that innocent citizens would be challenged constantly to produce their cards. "You could be stopped by the police...