A team of researchers at the Krembil Research Institute has published a paper that is expected to change the way scientists think about vision recovery after retinal cell transplantation.
Dec 14, 2016
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Researchers at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital with funding from Fight for Sight, in collaboration with a team from Baylor College of Medicine in the USA, have discovered a new retinitis pigmentosa ...
Nov 24, 2016
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UK eye researchers with funding from Fight for Sight have discovered a new means of communication between transplanted donor photoreceptors developed from stem cells and the degenerating photoreceptors of the host retina. ...
Oct 24, 2016
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As indicated by their name, photoreceptor cells in the eye respond to light: is an image point bright or dark? They do not indicate the direction of a movement. This perception only arises in the brain through the comparative ...
Aug 9, 2016
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UIC is part of a national phase 2 clinical trial to evaluate the safety and tolerability of using cells derived from multipotent umbilical cord cells to treat age-related macular degeneration, the most common cause of vision ...
Jul 20, 2016
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A pain medicine that potently activates a receptor vital to a healthy retina appears to help preserve vision in a model of severe retinal degeneration, scientists report.
Jun 27, 2016
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Until relatively recently, the dogma in neuroscience was that neurons, including the eye's photoreceptor cells, rods and cones, do not regenerate. This is the reason that nerve damage is thought to be so grave. More recent ...
Mar 18, 2016
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Scientists at UMass Medical School have identified a cell membrane transporter—CarT—that maintains vision in the fruit fly Drosophila by recycling the neurotransmitter histamine in the brain. Details of the study were ...
Feb 29, 2016
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Three years ago, a team from the University of Pennsylvania announced that they had cured X-linked retinitis pigmentosa, a blinding retinal disease, in dogs. Now they've shown that they can cure the canine disease over the ...
Oct 12, 2015
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Age-related macular degeneration (AMRD) could be treated by transplanting photoreceptors produced by the directed differentiation of stem cells, thanks to findings published today by Professor Gilbert Bernier of the University ...
Oct 6, 2015
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