LASIK is a popular choice for corrective eye surgery, which is considered safe, effective and highly successful. But this eye ...

A swollen tear duct can often be treated at home with warm compresses and massage. If home remedies don't work, antibiotics or surgery may be required. A swollen tear duct often results from a ...

Abstract: Recent advances in fluorescence imaging technology such as adaptive optics lattice light-sheet microscopy (AO-LLSM) allow live imaging of three dimensional (3D) tissues at super-resolution ...

Introduction: Distribution of newly synthesized proteins is vital for the maintenance of healthy cardiomyocytes (CMs), but is poorly understood. We previously reported that multiple newly made ...

Revised: This Reviewed Preprint has been revised by the authors in response to the previous round of peer review; the eLife assessment and the public reviews have been updated where necessary by the ...

Visualizing synaptic connectivity has traditionally relied on time-consuming electron microscopy-based imaging approaches. To scale the analysis of synaptic connectivity, fluorescent protein-based ...

The full script with explanations and output can be found in the Neurite_fluorescence_analysis.ipynb file which can be opened and run in Jupyter Notebook. A python file ...

Punctal plugs are small devices inserted into the tear ducts—the puncta—of the eyelids. Puncta are small openings in your eyes that drain tears. About the size of a grain of rice, the plug prevents ...

Toxic soup syndrome, also called tear stasis syndrome, can develop when chronic drug-induced or pooled inflammatory mediators are aggravated by punctal or canalicular stenosis, or both, according to ...

Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of ...