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Cell death from cytomegalovirus may bring new life to treatment of retinal disease

Cell death from cytomegalovirus may bring new life to treatment of retinal disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Just days after the first retinal cell gets infected with the common cytomegalovirus, contiguous cells start committing suicide and researchers believe their death may provide clues to better treatment of ...





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Retinal rescue: Cells derived from human embryonic stem cells reverse retinal degeneration

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study reports that transplanted pigment-containing visual cells derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) successfully preserved structure and function of the specialized light-sensitive lining of the eye (known ...


Eye cells believed to be retinal stem cells are misidentified

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cells isolated from the eye that many scientists believed were retinal stem cells are, in fact, normal adult cells, investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have found. If retinal stem cells could be obtained, ...


Scientists program blood stem cells to become vision cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 7

University of Florida researchers were able to program bone marrow stem cells to repair damaged retinas in mice, suggesting a potential treatment for one of the most common causes of vision loss in older people.


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Cats' eye diseases genetically linked to diseases in humans

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

About one in 3,500 people are affected with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a disease of the retina's visual cells that eventually leads to blindness. Now, a University of Missouri researcher has identified a genetic ...


Retina cells grown from skin-derived stem cells

Retina cells grown from skin-derived stem cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health has successfully grown multiple types of retina cells from two types of stem cells — suggesting ...


Experimental treatments restore partial vision to blind people

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Two experimental treatments, a retinal prosthesis and fetal tissue transplant, restored some vision to people with blinding eye diseases. The findings, presented at Neuroscience 2009, the annual meeting of the Society for ...


Researchers identify enzyme that makes survival molecule for key vision cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Research lead by Dr. Nicolas Bazan, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, identifying an enzyme that makes neuroprotectin D1 which specifically and ...


An 'eye catching' vision discovery

An 'eye catching' vision discovery

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 26, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Nearly all species have some ability to detect light. At least three types of cells in the retina allow us to see images or distinguish between night and day. Now, researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of ...


Level of cellular stress determines longevity of retinal cells

Level of cellular stress determines longevity of retinal cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stress can be adaptive. It can make you sharper, help you focus and it can even improve your performance. But too much of it can tax cells to the point where they can no longer cope and slowly ...


Developing gene therapy to fight blindness

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An international team of scientists and clinicians from the United States and Saudi Arabia are working to develop gene therapy for treating a rare, hereditary retinal disease. The therapy has been shown to restore lost vision ...



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