From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!lime!burdvax!puder Newsgroups: net.med Title: Re: floater followup Article-I.D.: burdvax.494 Posted: Thu Jan 20 13:42:22 1983 Received: Sun Jan 23 07:31:12 1983 References: seismo.213 According to my recollection (correct me gently if I am wrong) of an "Amateur Scientist" column in Scientific American recently, the floaters in the eye are usually gobs or chains of red blood cells that have escaped into the interior of the eye. A single red blood cell would be too small to notice, so I don't think a mere protein molecule (or chain of them) would be noticable. Karl Puder burdvax!puder SDC-aBC, R & D Paoli, Pa. (215)648-7555