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Researchers Discover Another Layer To the Cornea
puddingebola writes with this excerpt: "A previously undetected layer in the cornea, the clear window at the front of the human eye, has been discovered by scientists at The University of Nottingham. This new layer, called the Dua's Layer after Professor Harminder Dua who discovered it, could help surgeons to dramatically improve outcomes for patients undergoing corneal grafts and transplants. This is a major discovery that will mean that ophthalmology textbooks will literally need to be re-written. Having identified this new and distinct layer deep in the tissue of the cornea, we can now exploit its presence to make operations much safer and simpler for patients," said Dua, Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences."
Publishers rejoice as student are once again forced to purchase new books.
How did this get missed for so long?
I would have called it the "cornucopia"!
"I see", said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw.
I hope this caused some synapses to fire.
so, this is all new.. which is great, but, then again, what about the procedures they have been doing for the last little while, say like Lazik for example? Wouldn't this little bit of knowledge be important prior to sending to the surgery? Is this going to affect those procedures?
How could they miss it!
wouldn't "hammer and axe" make more sense? A saw can be guided to and then used to cut without the use of vision.
I come here for the love
..of the cornea-est stories on Slashdot.
I'll get my coat...
Donte Alistair Anderson Roberts - hi son!
Karma: Chameleon
For those who don't bother to read TFA: Dua's layer is what keeps your eyeballs intact despite your eye being pressurized to a greater extent than the surrounding atmosphere. It can take up to two bars of pressure. The discovery helped doctors figure out what was behind the cause of several structural-weakness related illnesses of the eye and may lead to new treatment options for glaucoma sufferers.
They're just like onions. Layers, layers, layers.
Since I've never been to med school, and flunked out of biology because I couldn't stomach the dissections ... is this a really hard to find layer or something?
I should think with all of the eyes which have been dissected by now, I can only assume this is a very hard to find structure if they're just finding it now. That or it looks like its part of another layer.
Though, it just goes to remind us that modern science still doesn't know everything.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
We don't need more organs with names that imply nothing about their function. Stop boosting the egos of these scientists, their goal should not be self-immortalization but advancement for the good of the scientific community.
I thought we were transitioning away from those obscure, hard-to-remember names; such as the Eustachian tube in the ear getting renamed to simply auditory tube.
More like one paragraph in a 2000 page book....
Every one tries to glorify their accomplishments. These are called new n00b attention seeking scientists.
Have gnu, will travel.
As someone who is losing vision due to a degenerative corneal condition, this is good news. Maybe soon they can pop them out, give them a tuneup, and put them back in.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
There, now I've said it.
the Vulcans. Like the inner eyelid Spock realizes he has in TOS: "Operation -- Annihilate!" Meant to protect us in the days we had 2 suns before one went nova. I made that last part up.
It's transparent turtles all the way down
Table-ized A.I.
I assume the NonEgotistical Layer name was taken.
I wonder how many cool nicknames he's also given himself.
...Google Glass.