It will temporarily be paler and may be more sensitive than the rest of your skin. After a scab falls off, a scar remains that is smaller than the original surgical incision. This skin is weaker and ...

The lesions of MFC evolve into punctate chorioretinal scars ... Fundus autofluorescence (FAF) is an imaging technique that is used to evaluate retinal disorders that affect the retinal pigment ...

Elementary particles were created. And, eventually, the cosmic flash dance left behind scars in the fabric of space-time. Physicists call them cosmic strings. Like stretch marks left on skin that ...

In their last study, IIT's research group saw for the first time that Ziapin2 also acts in a similar manner on neurons in the inner retina unaffected by degeneration, particularly at the bipolar ...

Researchers and clinicians at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and NIHR Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre, have developed a deep learning model, ‘AIRDetect’ to process fundus autofluorescence ...

Fundus autofluorescence (FAF) is an imaging technique that is used to evaluate retinal disorders that affect the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). FAF is useful to evalute disease activity in a ...

A new study has identified a set of 29 vascular health indicators on the retina, making a “fingerprint” that can help predict a person’s stroke risk. Researchers believe this method provides ...

Laser treatment has emerged as a leading option for removing scars. Lasers direct heat at small areas of scar tissue, decreasing blood supply and destroying the irregular tissue. This procedure is ...

In the 1950s, around 20 Inuit children, aged between five and nine, from various villages in Greenland were taken from their families and sent to Copenhagen to learn Danish. The goal was not only to ...