In many albino ... eye’s production of melanin—which absorbs near-infrared, visible light, and UV radiation—the majority of ...

Sure, mice, fruit flies, and zebrafish have their place in the ... In addition to metabolism, the blind, albino Mexican cavefish is particularly suited to helping researchers understand eyesight and ...

Researchers have restored vision in mice born blind by reprogramming Müller glial cells in the retina to develop into rod photoreceptors Bo Chen, Ph.D. View 1 Image ...

New research outlines a strategy that in mouse models significantly delayed the onset of blindness from inherited ... misfolded proteins that cells in the eye can't process. These proteins build ...

Hundreds of new genes linked to blindness ... Eye Center. "The whole ophthalmic community is going to start using these data." The results are the latest to come from the International Mouse ...

A technique that generates rod photoreceptors in the eye reversed congenital blindness in mice, a recent study found. The technique takes supportive cells in the retina called Müller glia and ...

By optimizing techniques, the researchers coaxed about 26,000 rod cells to incorporate into the retina of each injected eye. Mice used in the study were night blind due to a mutation that ...

(Getty Images) Hundreds of new genes linked to blindness and other vision disorders have been identified in a screen of mouse strains. Many of these genes are likely important in human eye vision and ...

Hundreds of new genes linked to blindness ... Eye Center. "The whole ophthalmic community is going to start using these data." The results are the latest to come from the International Mouse ...