Sentences with phrase «eye under the retina»

«When this chip is put into the eye under the retina, its solar cells and the electrodes come into contact with the poorly functioning light - sensing cells,» says Alan Chow.

Another delivery showing promise is a suspension of cells, which is injected into the eye under the retina.

Not exact matches

The volunteers, ranging in age from 20 to 88, received injections under their retina of a particular type of eye cell, retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells, which were derived from hESCs in the lab.

Among eyes with undiagnosed AMD, 78 percent had small deposits under the retina (called drusen), 78 percent had intermediate drusen, and 30 percent had large drusen.

In hundreds of experiments he glued a living fly to a special plastic platform under a microscope, sunk a wisp - thin electrode into its honeycombed eye, and recorded how its retina responded to beams of light.

For several years now, a retina implant for patients with degenerative eye conditions has been under development at the University of Tübingen's eye clinic.

The researchers injected 50,000 RPE cells suspended in a solution under the retina in one eye of each patient.

The LALES study, conducted among 4,876 Latinos in Los Angeles with a mean age cohort of 54.8 years old, indicates that Latinos diagnosed with bilateral AMD with large drusen (the lipids or fatty proteins that are yellow deposits under the retina) and depigmentation as well as a more severe AMD had a substantially lower health - related quality of life as compared to those with AMD lesions in only one eye.

In dry macular degeneration, the most common form of this eye disease, yellowish cellular deposits called drusen (extracellular waste products from metabolism) form under the retina.

It is a recessively inherited eye disorder that causes abnormal development of the choroid - an important layer of tissue under the retina of the eye.

As the eyes move, the swirling liquefied vitreous tugs on the retina, causing tears and fluid flow under the retina, separating it from the wall of the eye.

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