Sentences with phrase «discovered eye cells»

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EPFL scientists have now discovered an additional component: chronic inflammation can cause cells to actually change type — here, eye cells turned into skin.

Scientists in Italy have discovered a simple eye drop that may reverse glaucoma, the disease caused when pressure builds in the eye, injuring nerve cells and ultimately leading to blindness.

As neuroscientists David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel of Harvard University discovered in a series of groundbreaking experiments in the 1960s, individual cells in the visual cortex, so - called binocular cells, receive input from both eyes, specifically from corresponding retinal locations, thus providing a mechanism for perceptual fusion.

And finally, a huge goal is to discover protein signals that we could reactivate in a diseased or injured eye, signals that act early to make naive cells multiply in sufficient numbers to make an entire eye.

And the third major thing that I think we've discovered is that the immune cell of the eye, which is called the microglia; it serves a special function in the maintenance of the health of the retina.

Having discovered a genetic «key» (called P - TEFb) that is important in both cancer cell growth and immune cell differentiation, they tested the drugs on a mouse model for uveitis, an incurable eye condition in which the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue leading to inflammation of the uvea (the middle layer of the eye).