This series presents original leading edge results in the field of eye research. The focus in this compilation is on the role of prisms in the management of horizontal deviations; advances in the pathogenesis of pterygium; MRSA and eye infections; the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy; retinal control of the refractive state of the eye; proliferative vitreoretinopathy; the neuropathology of cultured retinas; non-invasive imaging of retinal gliosis and lens plasticity and intralenticular translocation of crystallins.