Chemical bonds within the eye-lens protein gamma-B crystallin hold the protein together and are therefore important for the function of the protein within the lens. Contrary to previous assumptions, ...

Uveitis is inflammation of the eye originating in the uvea, which includes the iris, ciliary body, and the choroid. Anterior uveitis affects the iris; intermediate uveitis affects the ciliary body, ...

BECAUSE it is locked away inside the skull, the brain is hard to study. Looking at it requires finicky machines which use magnetism or electricity or both to bypass the bone. There is just one tendril ...

Two-dimensional crystals of rhodopsin were studied to determine the arrangement of the transmembrane alpha helices. A combination of electron cryo-microscopy, image processing and electron ...