http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Research led by Minghao Jin, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Neuroscience at the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence, has found a protein that protects retinal photoreceptor cells from degeneration caused by light damage. This protein may provide a new therapeutic target for both an inherited retinal degenerative disease and age-related macular degeneration. The paper is published in the February 13, 2013 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-protein-light-induced-retinal-degeneration.html Neuroscience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:00:01 EST news279910674 (Medical Xpress)—Scientists have until now not fully understood how animals see in color, since visual pigments in eyes contain exactly the same chromophore (light absorbing segment of the molecule) and yet can absorb different wavelengths of light. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-new-understanding-of-how-we.html Medical research Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:42:50 EST news274081352