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Shaw inspects one half of a dog's diseased eye that was submitted to the lab for analysis. She found evidence of extensive bleeding inside the eyeball and a detached retina — likely caused by chronic high blood pressure.

'One Of A Kind' Collection Of Animal Eyeballs Aids Research On Vision Problems

Jul 02, 2017
Most of the 56,000 eyes sent to the little lab in Wisconsin come from vets who want help diagnosing dogs, cats and horses. But the repository also has eyes from sloths, elephant seals and dragonflies.
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Julia Brennan, owner of <a href="http://www.caringfortextiles.com/">Caring for Textiles</a>, always knew she had excellent eyesight and now wonders whether it's part of what inspired her choice of career.

Research Finds Dressmakers Have Good Eyes, And Not Just For Style

Jun 16, 2017
In a study of people from a variety of professions, dressmakers were found to have superior 3-D vision. Could their endless hours of delicate handwork be honing eyesight?
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After watching a sad video clip, students in the study were less able to accurately identify the colors in a blue and yellow spectrum.

When You've Got The Blues, You Have A Hard Time Seeing Blue

Sep 05, 2015
People who are sad have a harder time seeing yellow and blue, an experiment finds, but they can see green and red just fine. It might have something to do with dopamine receptors in the brain.
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