News tagged with photoreceptors Researchers have discovered that
using two kinds of therapy in tandem may be a knockout combo
against inherited disorders that cause blindness. While their
study focused on man's best friend, the treatment ...
Ophthalmology Apr 09, 2013 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 | Neurobiologists at
the Friedrich Miescher Institute have been able to dissect a
mechanism in the retina that facilitates our ability to see both
in the dark and in the light. They identified a cellular switch
... Neuroscience Mar 27, 2013 | 4.9 / 5 (7) | 0 | (Medical
Xpress)—For UCLA bioengineering professor Wentai Liu, more than
two decades of visionary research burst into the headlines last
month when the FDA approved what it called "the first bionic eye
for the blind." ... Ophthalmology Mar 25, 2013 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0 |
Vision scientists long have thought that lack of very long chain
fatty acids in photoreceptor cells caused blindness in children
with Stargardt type 3 retinal degeneration, an incurable eye
disease. But research