{"id":2031,"date":"2026-07-23T10:39:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/the-eye-has-a-hidden-cleanup-system-and-scientists-just-discovered-it\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T10:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:39:37","slug":"the-eye-has-a-hidden-cleanup-system-and-scientists-just-discovered-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/the-eye-has-a-hidden-cleanup-system-and-scientists-just-discovered-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eye Has a Hidden Cleanup System and Scientists Just Discovered It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/the-eye-has-a-hidden-cleanup-system-and-scientists-just-discovered-it\/\" title=\"The Eye Has a Hidden Cleanup System and Scientists Just Discovered It\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Human-Eye-Close-Up-777x491.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Human Eye Close Up\" style=\"display: block;margin: auto;margin-bottom: 5px;max-width: 100%\" \/><\/a>The newly identified lymphatic network could fundamentally change how scientists understand and treat some of the leading causes of blindness. Fluid, proteins, and inflammatory debris can accumulate behind the retina in several major causes of permanent blindness, including glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration. Yet scientists have long struggled to explain how the eye normally removes [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Science, Space and Technology News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly identified lymphatic network could fundamentally change how scientists understand and treat some of the leading causes of blindness. Fluid, proteins, and inflammatory debris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}