From Washington, D.C., at a seminar on Research to Prevent Blindness
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness among the elderly in the United States. By gauging the eye’s capacity to adapt to darkness, neuroscientist Gregory R. Jackson and his colleagues at the University of Alabama in Birmingham may have discovered a way to spot the earliest stages of the disease.
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