{"id":208,"date":"2026-11-03T20:38:27","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/?p=208"},"modified":"2026-11-03T20:38:27","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:38:27","slug":"a-surprising-vitamin-a-discovery-is-changing-what-scientists-know-about-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"A surprising vitamin A discovery is changing what scientists know about vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 17px;line-height: 1.8;color: #334155;margin-bottom: 25px\">Scientists at Johns Hopkins University have uncovered a surprising process that helps humans develop sharp vision before birth, challenging decades of assumptions about how the eye forms. Using miniature human retinas grown in the lab, researchers discovered that a vitamin A derivative and thyroid hormones work together to shape the foveola, the tiny region at the center of the retina responsible for our sharpest vision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2026\/10\/261028234813.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;padding:12px 26px;background:#0f172a;color:#ffffff;font-weight:700;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none\">Read Full Story on Source &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Johns Hopkins University have uncovered a surprising process that helps humans develop sharp vision before birth, challenging decades of assumptions about how the eye forms. Using miniature human retinas grown in the lab, researchers discovered that a vitamin A derivative and thyroid hormones work together to shape the foveola, the tiny region at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}