UNIVERSITY NEWS
Nature could provide treatments for blindness
Mother Nature could hold the answer to treating several causes of blindness, according to a new study involving scientists from the University of Surrey and the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute at Indiana University School of Medicine in the US.
The scientists have tested compounds from the Hyacinthaceae plant family that could
possibly be used to treat blindness in premature babies (retinopathy of prematurity), diabetics (proliferative diabetic retinopathy) and older adults (wet age-related macular degeneration).
One synthetic derivative in particular could be used to help people with the conditions. Current therapies are expensive with some patients experiencing
serious side-effects and the use of injections into the eye is unpleasant.
Professor Dulcie Mulholland, Head of Surrey’s Department of Chemistry, said: “We believe that our results hint at possible future treatments for many degenerative eye conditions and it appears that nature still has many secrets to reveal.”
The world’s first AI travel guide
A team of researchers from Surrey and the Open University has developed the world’s first travel guide powered by artificial intelligence (AI) for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, alongside Bradt Travel Guides.
Called Cornwall a-book, the app for Android phones uses world-leading recognition technology developed by Professor Miroslaw Bober and his team at Surrey’s Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing.
While using the app and the guide (Bradt’s Slow Travel Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly), visual object recognition, audio analysis and geolocation work together to provide travellers with exciting, personalised digital content.
Professor Bober said: “Our app uses the latest advances in AI to instantly recognise and classify objects and locations, even under changing viewing angles and obstructions. We are excited that our technology will make travel experiences more engaging.”
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