Fish eyes could hold clue to repairing damaged retinas in humans
...ith stem cell properties could potentially restore sight to someone who is losing or has lost their sight due to diseased or damaged retina," says Dr Astrid Limb, who led the study. "Our findings have enorm...Penn researchers report that gene therapy awakens the brain despite blindness from birth
...leaving it unable to process visual information if sight is restored. Weve now challenged that view. The results support the potential for human benefit from retinal therapies aimed at restoring vision to those with genetic retinal disease.Researchers used functional MRI to measure brain activity in bli...International team to honor 30th anniversary of deep-sea vent discovery in Galpagos
...ly accessible by submersibles-are generally out of sight and therefore out of the public mind," Ramirez-Llodra said. "We [ChEss] believe that holding a public event is essential to increase the public's awareness of the existence, functioning and beauty of these ecosystems that some scientists believe may...Massive herds of animals found to still exist in Southern Sudan
...he WCS Southern Sudan Country Program, did finally sight a group of three zebra moving with the white-eared kob migration in Boma National Park. The team also identified a key zone of semi-arid habitat supporting several species, which will be proposed as a new protected area. (OVER) In an effort to pr...UF researchers awaken vision cells in blind mice
...f Florida researchers used gene therapy to restore sight in mice with a form of hereditary blindness, a finding that has bearing on many of the most common blinding diseases. Writing online in todays (May 21) edition of Nature Medicine, scientists describe how they used a harmless virus to deliver correc...UBC discovery may lead to 'smart' therapies for breast, ovarian cancer
...ipal investigator. "The culprit is hiding in plain sight on the surface of tumour cells, so we are now developing "smart" molecules to block its function. The ultimate goal is to generate new targeted, non-toxic treatments very different from the standard slash and burn chemotherapy." The researchers fo...Accolades for York's commitment to women in science
...ze winner Professor Dorothy Hodgkin was a familiar sight in the Department of Chemistry at the University of York as she completed her pioneering work on insulin. Her presence helped to establish a tradition of women scientists at York. Women who have followed, such as laser spectroscopist Dr Caroline De...Sense and sensibility in short-term memory
... University study confirms the Newtonian idea that sight and sound are indeed parallelat least when it come... book, Opticks, and set out to investigate whether sight and hearing behave similarly in encoding short-term memories. "Obviously, sound and light are phy...'Smart' prosthetics: restoring independence to people with disabilities
...af. Retinal implants are in development to restore sight to the blind. And there several systems being created that will help people living with paralysis. Someday, using their own muscles, people with paralysis will be able to feed themselves or perhaps even walk. These electronic devices will allow them ......l Biology Letters shows for the first time how the sight of physical ornamentation on another member of the group determines when an individual is ready to mate. The researchers studied a captive population of green swordtail fish, a species native to Central America and popular in tropical aquariums. T...Faster, low cost sequencing technologies needed to drive era of personalized medicine
...erited DNA, or genome, would drop their jaw at the sight of the bill -- to the current tune of $10 million or more charged for every human or mammalian-sized genome sequenced. Now, with a grant award from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), scientists at the Biodesign Institute at Arizo...JDRF-funded researchers discover protein that causes blood vessel leakage and swelling in eyes
...tic macular edema still pose the serious threat of sight loss. Dr. Feeners findings could provide new opportunities for the development of treatments for diabetes-related vision loss," said Dr. Helen Nickerson, Scientific Program Manager for Complications at JDRF. Diabetic retinopathy is one of the most...Joslin discovers protein that causes blood vessel leakage and swelling with diabetic retinopathy
...tic macular edema still pose the serious threat of sight loss. Going forward, Dr. Feener's findings could provide new opportunities for the development of treatments for diabetes-related vision loss," said Dr. Helen Nickerson, Scientific Program Manager for Complications at JDRF. Diabetic retinopathy, o...Some brain-damaged patients quit smoking with ease, researchers report in Science
... is activated by drug-associated cues, such as the sight of people doing drugs or drug paraphernalia. "One of the most difficult problems in any form of addiction is the difficulty in stopping the urge to smoke, to take a drug, or to eat for that matter. Now we have identified a brain target for further...New study challenges 'critical period' in childhood vision development
...quire visual function even after being deprived of sight for an extended period during childhood. The evidence gathered from this case study presents a scientific alternative to the widely noted "critical period" that the brain undergoes during childhood. The critical period theory asserts that the brain...Stanford discovery may help predict when toxoplasma can be deadly
...rganism to their fetuses, potentially resulting in sight and hearing problems as well as learning disabilities. The new findings have implications for determining how to treat these and other infected people: More aggressive therapy may be warranted if a strain that contains the proteins that increase viru...Transplanted photoreceptor precursor cells restore visual function in mice with retinal degeneration
...s implications for human eye diseases that dim the sight of millions of people, Swaroop anticipates that several years of research using animal models and cell culture systems will still be needed before transplantation can be considered ready for testing in humans. Restoring visual function in animals...In early embryos, cilia get the message across
... lung, eye and kidney, and are required for smell, sight and reproduction. Medical conditions, such as diabetes and obesity, have been linked to structural defects in the architecture or in function of cilia. Moreover, recent evidence indicates that cilia may have additional roles in controlling skeletal d...Does missing gene point to nocturnal existence for early mammals?
...in. This melanopsin photoreceptor is not linked to sight but uses light for non-visual processes, such as regulating our day-night rhythms and pupil constriction." Although the melanopsin gene is present in all vertebrates, the version in mammals was unusually different to that found in fish, amphibians ......hat a similar liquid was able to partially restore sight in hamsters that had had their visual tract severed. In that case, the self-assembling peptides served as an internal matrix on which brain cells could regrow. While experimenting with the liquid during brain surgery, the researchers discovered that...