We look to the oldest in society to understand the contribution of poor nutrition to ophthalmic disease

Sitting Down With Jim Mazzo, Operating Partner at Versant Ventures.

A student lost sight in one eye after failing to remove her disposable contact lenses for six months. So how did tabloid journalists turn it into such a popular news story?

Identifying corneal limbal stem cells for transplantation has been a major challenge. But now a highly specific marker of these cells has been found: ABCB5

SIRT1 appears to be an anti-aging protein that protects against weight gain, diabetes, inflammation, and even optic neuritis… in mouse models. Is SIRT1 the key to eternal youth, or simply snake oil?

Oral replacement therapy of the retinoid intermediate that fails to form in some types of Leber congenital amaurosis shows significant promise in an early-phase clinical trial

Might you soon take a skin cell from a patient with retinitis pigmentosa, roll it back to a pluripotent state, culture it to become retinal cells and trial gene therapy on it in vitro?

Is the potential dystopia that is myopia a consequence of too much study?

Population-level disease prophylaxis with statins has improved the lives of millions. But there has been some protest about this mass medication. Is the next battle not with disease, but with the press?

One of the most debilitating microvascular complications of diabetes is diabetic retinopathy, the most important cause of blindness among working age adults in developed countries.