Exposure to Light While Pregnant Essential for Fetal Eye Development – 1/17/2013
January 17, 2013 -- The eye, which depends on light in order to see, also requires light to develop normally during pregnancy. The researchers believe these results provide a new basic comprehension of fetal eye progression and ocular conditions caused by vascular issues.
The study, conducted by scientists from Cincinnati's Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and published in the journal Nature
, reveals information about retinopathy prematurity that causes blindness in babies that are born prematurely.
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