In most retinal ganglion cells, the dendrites spread in all different directions around the cell body, Meister told __The Scientist.__ In order to find out the function of this unusually shaped subset ...

The human eye can see with exceptional detail, allowing people to read fine print, recognize faces across the room, and take ...

The FDA granted regenerative medicine advanced therapy designation to RTx-015 for the treatment of retinitis pigmentosa.

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 ...

Scientists led by Botond Roska at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) and collaborators have ...

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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 ...

A hybrid retinal implant using stem-cell-derived neurons and microelectrodes lowers activation thresholds and improves signal precision, offering a more natural interface for high-resolution vision ...

Inside the human eye, the retina is made up of several types of cells, including the light-sensing photoreceptors that initiate the cascade of events that lead to vision. Damage to the photoreceptors, ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...