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Technique to regenerate the optic nerve offers hope for future glaucoma treatment

05 Nov 2020

Scientists have used gene therapy to regenerate damaged nerve fibres in the eye, in a discovery that could aid the development of new treatments for...

A growing axon tip exhibits polarised mRNA translation (red), Credit: K-M. Leung

The amazing axon adventure

05 Feb 2016

How does the brain make connections, and how does it maintain them? Cambridge neuroscientists and mathematicians are using a variety of techniques to...

11 Thinking about it, Credit: Sam Webster

Lifelong learning and the plastic brain

19 Nov 2014

Our brains are plastic. They continually remould neural connections as we learn, experience and adapt. Now researchers are asking if new...

From Mexican wave to retinal wave: why sharing data is good for science

07 Apr 2014

From the way we learn, to how our memories are made and stored, the workings of our brains depend on connections forged between billions of neurons...

Alice eyes. Researchers found that most children believe that people can only see each other when their eyes meet.

Windows to the self?

29 Oct 2012

Researchers have offered a convincing new theory which explains why children believe that they are invisible when they cover their eyes.

Surprising solution to fly eye mystery

11 Oct 2012

Research provides insight into why flies have the fastest vision in the animal kingdom.

Researchers develop new test for children with vision loss

11 Oct 2011

Technology developed at the University of Cambridge to detect peripheral visual field loss in young children will enable the earlier detection of...

Deposition taken from a witness to the 1641 Irish rebellion

Rebellion, repression, retribution

01 Feb 2008

John Morrill explores one of the most extraordinary and least understood aspects of Anglo-Irish history - the rebellion of 1641.

Lucid in the sky

26 Sep 2007

A New Cambridge University star catalogue is the “most accurate ever”.

Guiding the light

01 Sep 2007

Pioneering research shines new light on our understanding of the way we see the world. Optical fibres have now been found to exist in vertebrate eyes...

An invention to help the ageing eye