UCSB neuroscientist to receive award
...ow offers oxygen to patients waiting to have their retinas reattached. Fisher earned his Ph.D. in neurobiology in 1969 at Purdue University. Part of the study for the Ph.D. was done in the Department of Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University. In 1969 he became a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fel...Magnetic fluids offer hope for damaged retinas
...ectable magnetic fluids to repair torn or detached retinas a technique they believe could help prevent blind.... Silicone fluid is currently used to push damaged retinas back in place. A magnetized version of the fluid would make repairs easier and more precise by allow...Brown researchers find new photoreceptor and visual system in the eye
...earchers describe the new cells, discovered in the retinas of rats, and their direct pipeline to the brain. The cells send out nerve fibers which travel within the optic nerve and connect with the clock region in the brain. We think this population of cells plays a role in setting the circadian clock and pro...