News tagged with retinal ganglion cells
Caltech scientists create robot surrogate for blind persons in testing visual prostheses
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Oct 19, 2009 |
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the "visual" experience of a blind person who has been implanted with a visual ...
How the retina works: Like a multi-layered jigsaw puzzle of receptive fields
Apr 07, 2009 |
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About 1.25 million neurons in the retina -- each of which views the world only through a small jagged window called a receptive field -- collectively form the seamless picture we rely on to navigate our environment. ...
Experts examine causes, treatment and prevention of glaucoma
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Although scientists know progressive degeneration of retinal ganglion cells and their axons is the primary cause of glaucoma, researchers have yet to identify a way to stop or prevent the degeneration.
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Gene therapy restores vision to mice with retinal degeneration
Oct 16, 2008 |
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Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have used gene therapy to restore useful vision to mice with degeneration of the light-sensing retinal rods and cones, a common cause of human blindness. Their report, appearing ...
New Type of Retinol Cell Discovered in Primates
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Oct 30, 2007 |
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Scientists are one step closer to understanding how the retinas of humans and primates turn incoming light into coded messages communicated to the brain.
Cells in eye could help control sleep
Aug 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A set of nerve cells in the eye control our levels of sleepiness according to the brightness of our surroundings, Oxford University researchers have discovered. The cells directly regulate ...
A key mechanism regulating neural stem cell development is uncovered
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Oct 08, 2008 |
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A research team at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal (IRCM), funded by the Foundation Fighting Blindness – Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), discovered a novel mechanism that regulates ...
Retinal rescue: Cells derived from human embryonic stem cells reverse retinal degeneration
Oct 01, 2009 |
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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
Mar 30, 2009 |
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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, ...
Discovery of retinal cell type ends 4-decade search
Oct 09, 2007 |
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A research team combining high-energy physicists from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and neuroscientists from the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., has discovered a type of retinal cell that may help monkeys, ...
Mammals can be stimulated to regrow damaged inner retina nerve cells
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Nov 24, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have reported for the first time that mammals can be stimulated to regrow inner nerve cells in their damaged retinas. Located in the back of the eye, the retina's role in vision ...
Technology to Treat Blindness Earns Award
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Research performed at Caltech as part of a collaborative U.S. Department of Energy-funded artificial-retina project designed to restore sight to the blind has received one of R&D Magazine's 2009 R&D 100 Awards. ...
Anti-HIV drugs reduce the cause of some forms of vision loss
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 23, 2008 |
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A potential new therapeutic use for anti-HIV drugs known as protease inhibitors has been suggested by a team of researchers from Harvard Medical School, Boston, and Inserm U848, France, as a result of their work in a mouse ...
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