Sentences with phrase «retinal cell researcher»

After looking closer at the developing retinal cells the researchers found that spiders build their eyes as little embryos complete with all the retinal cells they will ever need and then put the lens on top.

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From the embryonic stem cells, the researchers produced a type of tissue called retinal pigment epithelium (RPE).

Researchers used stem cells to create retinal pigment epithelium cells, which were transplanted into a patient's retina (left) in an area depicted by the black circle.

Using cutting - edge 3D microscopy, researchers from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Yale University examined the subcellular architecture of presynaptic terminals in retinal bipolar cells of live goldfish.

Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a method to efficiently turn human stem cells into retinal ganglion cells, the type of nerve cells located within the retina that transmit visual signals from the eye to the brain.

Zebrafish larvae and fluorescently marked immune cells allow researchers to track immune system activity in a model of retinal degeneration.

Cells isolated from human umbilical cord tissue have been shown to produce molecules that help retinal neurons from the eyes of rats grow, connect and survive, according to Duke University researchers working with Janssen Research & Development, LLC.

One researcher has found a way to cultivate retinal stem cells and developed an implantation technique that aims to reverse the disease's progression, by injecting about 50,000 healthy cells behind the retinas of mice with damaged retinas.

When retinal cells die they are much more likely to die in the center of the retina than in the periphery, which the researchers say is exactly what happens in humans with age and the problem with macular degeneration.

For the technology to help restore sight in people, such as those with macular degeneration, the researchers needed to come up with a ready source of immature retinal cells.

The researchers used tools of epigenomic analysis to trace the specific epigenetic switches controlling each of thousands of genes in both mouse and human retinal cells as the cells progressed through development.

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe plan to generate replacement retinal pigment epithelial cells from iPS cells generated from patients suffering age - related macular degeneration.

«Regenerative potential of cells in mouse retina: Researchers use a clue from zebrafish to discover the cues that reprogram Müller glia into retinal neurons.»

The researchers injured the mice retinas with a toxin that causes cell death in retinal ganglion cells and interneurons, another type of retinal cell whose job it is to transmit signals from photoreceptors to the brain.

First, researchers found a pigment called melanopsin in a small subset of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) in the eyes of rats.

If the researchers can get the technique to work with human stem cells, she says, it could help the one in 3000 people born with a form of blindness caused by damaged retinal cells and the many more who lose their sight because of age - related disease.

When researchers used a drug to block the action of the female sex hormone in female mice carrying the Nf1 mutation, they saw a drop in the number of activated microglia and a decrease in retinal damage and nerve cell death.

Los Angeles, CA (Scicasts)-- Physicians and researchers at the USC Roski Eye Institute have collaborated with other California institutions to show that a first - in - kind stem cell - based retinal implant is feasible for...

Pluripotent stem cells — those, like embryonic stem cells, that give rise to almost every type of cell in the body — can be converted into the different classes of retinal cells necessary for vision, according to a new, RPB - supported study from researchers at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y.

Working with researchers at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Switzerland, the MIT team also tested Jaws's ability to restore the light sensitivity of retinal cells called cones.

Researchers at UCSB were able to make these human iPS cells differentiate, or turn into, retinal cells.

Some researchers seek gene therapies that might act more broadly on retinal cells, perhaps by using genes that produce proteins supporting the growth and health of nerve cells, which could be delivered before significant vision loss occurs.

The researchers wanted to understand how retinal cells survive the initial vascular damage, and found that they go into a self - preservation mode called senescence.

Empowered with the knowledge that retinal cells play a critical role in communicating information from the eye to brain, researchers have begun to develop a suite of potential treatments and therapies.