University of Otago: Microgravity Mission for Eye Health
August 22, 2024
August 22, 2024
DUNEDIN, New Zealand, Aug. 22 (TNSres) -- The University of Otago issued the following news release:
An Otago ophthalmologist has gone to the edge of Earth's atmosphere for his ocular research.
Dr Francesc March, of the Department of Medicine, has spent the past two years working on an aerospace project in France into how eyes are affected by microgravity, particularly dry eye disease (DED).
"Our research is the first to investigate the disease in spac . . .
An Otago ophthalmologist has gone to the edge of Earth's atmosphere for his ocular research.
Dr Francesc March, of the Department of Medicine, has spent the past two years working on an aerospace project in France into how eyes are affected by microgravity, particularly dry eye disease (DED).
"Our research is the first to investigate the disease in spac . . .