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SARS-CoV-2 SARS-CoV-2 is a positive-stranded RNA virus belonging to the Coronavirus family, so named because of its typical crown-like appearance, visible under an electron microscope. From the trend data......

Ophthalmology and the Covid pandemic In light of the global spread of SARS-CoV-2 and the global emergency period we are currently experiencing, there is a need to understand what the implications are for the......

Glaucoma is among the leading causes of irreversible blindness worldwide and is estimated to affect about 76 million people by 2020. To date, there is no......

Sight is one of the most important sensory functions, more than 30% of the human brain is in fact involved in processing visual information. Sight loss, of all the possible......

Diabetes mellitus and its relationship to diabetic retinopathy Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is among the most common metabolic diseases in the world and......

Macular hole (MH, Macular Hole) is a full-thickness retinal defect in the foveolar area that results in the impairment of central vision. Idiopathic age-related macular hole occurs in......

Deficiency of LAMP2, a glycoprotein mainly expressed in the Retinal Pigmented Epithelium, is associated with the onset of AMD (Age-Related Macular Degeneration). In an experiment conducted in mice, inactivation of the gene that......

Retinopathy of the Premature (ROP): A new predictive model is able to identify the risk of ROP, an eye disease that can lead to blindness, at an early stage. The model, available under......