THE ciliary muscle is like a circle around the lens in the eye, and it changes its shape to help us focus. When the muscle contracts, it makes the lens fatter to see things close up; when it ...

The organelle is membrane-bound and contains multiple microtubules running along its length. Whereas primary cilia have relatively little additional structure, motile cilia have both a central ...

MAY I be allowed through your columns to direct the attention of physiologists and anatomists to certain special features in ocular accommodation, and in the movements of the iris in birds, and to ...

Ciliary muscle segmentation in Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography (AS-OCT) images is critical significance, yet challenging due to ambiguous boundaries. In this letter, we propose a ...