Retinitis pigmentosa retinal degeneration is caused by a family of hereditary mutations in nearly 100 genes that slowly lead to blindness over years or decades. One of those genes encodes the enzyme ...

The same genes could hold the key to regenerating cells in the ear and eye, according to a new mouse study from the USC Stem Cell laboratory of Ksenia Gnedeva, PhD, published in the Proceedings of the ...

In a comparative analysis across vertebrates of the many cell types in the retina -- mice alone have 130 types -- researchers concluded that most cell types have an ancient evolutionary history. Their ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British and American scientists have restored vision in blind mice by transplanting light-sensitive cells into their eyes in a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments of ...

Researchers from Bonn and Basel have developed a new method to equip human retinal organoids – small, lab-grown models of ...

Until now, it has been difficult to maintain retinal ganglion cells deep inside organoids over extended periods. The supply ...

Liang Li, Xue Feng, Fang Fang, David A. Miller, Shaobo Zhang, Pei Zhuang, Haoliang Huang, Pingting Liu, Junting Liu, Nripun Sredar, Liang Liu, Yang Sun, Xin Duan ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol, together with collaborators at London’s Global University Institute of Ophthalmology, and the University of Bristol spin-out Cirrus Therapeutics, have ...

The blood-brain and blood-retinal barriers are protective systems that prevent harmful substances from entering the brain and ...