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Microglia in retinal sections of a patient with retinitis pigmentosa

Immune System Can Slow Degenerative Eye Disease, NIH-led Mouse Study Shows

A new study shows that the complement system, part of the innate immune system, plays a protective role to slow retinal degeneration in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited eye disease.
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A step closer to identifying cause of a blinding disease

A recent study, led by researchers at McGill University, offers an important step in unlocking the mystery of Leber hereditary optic neuropathy’s cause.
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Experimental Drug Delivers One-Two Punch to Vision Loss

In studies with lab-grown human cells and in mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have found that an experimental drug may be twice as good at fighting vision loss as previously thought.
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With Single Gene Insertion, Blind Mice Regain Sight

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, find that restoring opsins with gene therapy can make 'blind' cells light-sensitive; potential human treatment within three years.
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UNH Researchers Create a Hydrogel Contact Lens to Treat Serious Eye Disease

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have created a hydrogel that could one day be made into a contact lens to more effectively treat corneal melting.
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Electrical Activity Early in Fruit Flies' Brain Development Could Shed Light on How Neurons Wire the Brain

Neurons somehow know which of their neighbors to connect with and which to avoid in the crowded environment of the central nervous system. But how?
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Findings on eye-signal blending re-examine Nobel-winning research

“Our data suggest that the two eyes are merged as they arrive in the neocortex and not at a later stage of brain processing, as previously believed,” said Vanderbilt’s Alexander Maier, assistant professor of psychology.
A scanning electron micrograph image shows a polarized RPE monolayer on a biodegradable scaffold. The image is colored to highlight the scaffold in blue, three RPE cells (brown), and the apical processes of cells in RPE monolayer are light green.

NIH researchers rescue photoreceptors, prevent blindness in animal models of retinal degeneration

Using a novel patient-specific stem cell-based therapy, researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI) prevented blindness in animal models of geographic atrophy, the advanced “dry” form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD)...
Graphs comparing neuronal signal detected by multiple methods.

Researchers design technology that sees nerve cells fire

Researchers at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, have created a noninvasive technology that detects when nerve cells fire based on changes in shape.

NEI Investigator Hikosaka Awarded Gruber Prize in Neuroscience

Dr. Okihide Hikosaka, senior investigator at the National Eye Institute (NEI) Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, is a recipient of the 2018 Gruber Prize in Neuroscience.

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