Hold on! What’s this say…? Oh! It says “I’m Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science.” Whoof. Getting old is hard on your eyes. But! Alexandra Bernardo-Colón and team at the National Eye Institute just might keep blindness at bay. Aging and disease cause the death of eye
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These glasses help you see… with your ears! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Blindness affects about thirty-nine million people worldwide. This can make daily life more difficult! Can technology help? Enter Howe Yuan Zhu and team from the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. They
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Could the light at the end of the tunnel… cure blindness? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Your eyes and brain communicate in perfect harmony to let you see. But for kids with amblyopia, or “lazy eye syndrome,” this tango gets messed up. The brain
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New hope for the Three Blind Mice? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. The Farmer’s Wife may yet be foiled thanks to researchers from Fudan University. For sighted people, light gets picked up by cells in our eyes. These cells have sheets of pigment that
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