α-Crystallin is a major lens protein, comprising up to 40% of total lens proteins, where its structural function is to assist in maintaining the proper refractive index in the lens. In addition to its ...

Chemical bonds within the eye-lens protein gamma-B crystallin hold the protein together and are therefore important for the function of the protein within the lens. Contrary to previous assumptions, ...

Fish-eye lenses may soon get bug-eyed. Bioengineers at the University of California at Berkeley have created artificial compound eyes, modeled after those of insects, that could one day be used to ...

FRANKFURT. The lens of the human eye gets its transparency and refractive power from the fact that certain proteins are densely packed in its cells. These are mainly crystallines. If this dense ...