PDE6A-associated RP, a rare form of inherited retinal disease (IRD), is characterized by nyctalopia, visual field defects, and significant loss of visual acuity (VA). The disease primarily affects the ...

Optoretinography (ORG) enables non-invasive measurement of rod photoreceptor responses, crucial for early detection of retinal diseases. ORG combines adaptive optics and interferometry, allowing ...

The start-up Function will send practically anyone to a lab for extensive medical testing, no physical required. Is that a good thing? By Kristen V. Brown As Kimberly Crisp approached middle age, ...

1 Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom 2 Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United ...

Function Health, a startup that offers lab testing and body scans for early disease detection, scored nearly $300 million in series B funding, boosting its valuation to $2.5 billion. Redpoint Ventures ...

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the ...

From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly. Yet, many users struggle to ...

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the ...

The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The output of the above function will be 5, ...

A novel protein found in the coldest environments on Earth, such as Greenland’s glaciers and the peaks of Tibet, may hold the key to developing innovative new brain technologies, according to new ...

Function Health said it acquired full-body MRI scanning company Ezra. Function offers a $499 annual subscription where members complete more than 160 blood tests and track their results over time.

Function Health, a preventive health and longevity startup, acquired Ezra to integrate Function’s lab testing capabilities with the company’s artificial-intelligence-powered full-body scans, combining ...