Saakshi Bangera, DY Patil School of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is the most generic subtype of irreversible blindness. Primary open-angle glaucoma primarily affects the people of African heritage. Among Europeans, the prevalence of POAG is approximately 1%, whereas, in African-Americans, this value ranges between 4-5%. Additionally, individuals of African ancestry experience an […]
Moumita Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata Introduction Prosopagnosia is an impairment that causes the inability to acknowledge previously known faces and to find out new faces. It is also known as “face-blindness”. It may occur as a developmental variant or after a brain lesion. Humans have acquired the flexibility of recognizing faces effortlessly, rapidly, and accurately […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata It is often said that a person’s confidence is measured through the amount of eye contact it makes. In an interview or even a group discussion or any performance, eye contact is something that drives the attention. But what if a person loses his/her sight? All the beauty of the […]
PRIYANKA CHAKRABORTY, AMITY UNIVERSITY, KOLKATA The incurable eye disease Glaucoma leads to partial or total vision loss in approximately 80 million people. Therefore, it was extremely crucial to find a way around this complicated disease; the relation between metabolic disturbance in the nerve cells in the retina and high intraocular pressure. Moreover, in animal models, […]
Richismita Hazra, Amity University Kolkata Macular degeneration is an eye disease that causes loss in the centre of the field of vision and often leads to irreversible blindness. The disease is broad of two types: dry macular degeneration in which there is a deterioration of the centre of the retina and wet macular degeneration that […]
Ritwika Chowdhury, Team BioXone In today’s times, infections and casualties have become synonymous to the pandemic. People are scared to step out of their houses, if not for an emergency. In such a situation another rising problem that is taking shape gradually is the vision impairment.The WHO theme for World Sight Day 2020 is “hope […]
-Sayanti Pal, Amity University Kolkata Retinal Degeneration is a condition in which there is a slow degeneration of the retinal cells, eventually leading to blindness. People who suffer from these retinal degenerative diseases for years are said to suffer from permanent loss of vision. But thanks to recent advances in science and technology for giving us […]
