Nikon to help fight diabetes-related eye diseases with optical engineering expertise

Nikon has announced it’s teaming up with Verily, the company previously known as Google Life Sciences, to help improve the detection of diabetes-related eye diseases -- diabetic retinopathy and macular edema, two of the leading causes of adult blindness. The camera giant will contribute its imaging technology to Verily’s machine learning, with a goal of increasing early detection, giving patients …