A Wayne State University startup company announced today the first successful dosing of a patient in a clinical trial that is a major step forward for patients with vision challenges.
Mar 23, 2016
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A new paper from an academic at City University London has challenged the widespread 'misconception' among vision scientists and the general population that peripheral colour vision is weak or non-existent.
Nov 9, 2015
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(HealthDay)—A member of the Cerberus gene family, Coco (Dand5), appears to be involved in differentiation into S-cone photoreceptors by blocking BMP/TGFβ/Wnt signaling, according to an experimental study published online ...
Oct 14, 2015
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Scientists at the University of Manchester have successfully restored the sight of laboratory mice suffering from a common cause of blindness in people.
Sep 2, 2015
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Spider-like cells inside the brain, spinal cord and eye hunt for invaders, capturing and then devouring them. These cells, called microglia, often play a beneficial role by helping to clear trash and protect the central nervous ...
Jul 2, 2015
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People with achromatopsia, an inherited eye disorder, see the world literally in black and white. Worse yet, their extreme sensitivity to light makes them nearly blind in bright sunlight. Now, researchers at University of ...
Jun 1, 2015
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A team of researchers at the IRCM led by Michel Cayouette, PhD, identified one of the genes responsible for producing a type of cell required for vision. The breakthrough, published in the scientific journal Neuron, could ...
Feb 18, 2015
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(Medical Xpress)—Vision – so crucial to human health and well-being – depends on job-sharing by just a few cell types, the rod cells and cone cells, in our retina. Botond Roska and his group have identified a novel ...
Nov 19, 2014
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Scientists from the groups of Botond Roska and Witold Filipowicz at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research have resolved the mechanism controlling the maintenance of the light sensitive "antennas" of photoreceptors ...
Jul 2, 2014
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Progressive degeneration of photoreceptors—the rods and cones of the eyes—causes blinding diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration. While there are currently no available treatments to ...
Feb 19, 2014
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