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Announcing the 2024 Eye on the Future video contest winners!

Teens from across the country shared their passion for science by participating in this year’s Eye on the Future teen video contest. We’re so inspired by how they see science in their world, the field or lab, and their future — and we’re delighted to announce this year’s contest winners!

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NIH researchers discover a new face-detecting brain circuit

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have uncovered a brain circuit in primates that rapidly detects faces.
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A new target for treatment of one type of macular degeneration

A new study in mice hints at the promise of an eventual alternative treatment option for the “wet” version of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

NEI funded study reveals neural mechanism of encoding familiar faces

Faces of familiar individuals with whom one has frequent social interactions with are learned in the basal ganglia region (specifically the tail part of the striatum) through the same neural mechanisms that recognize the value of objects.

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These NEI initiatives support challenging, high-impact vision research. Current priorities include:

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