Sentences with phrase «under the retina»

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

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.

The first signs of the disease are so - called drusen, which occur under the retina in the form of round, yellow deposits.

The defect may cause an underdeveloped choroid (the blood vessels in the tissue under the retina), defect in the optic nerve, thinning of the sclera, and retinal detachment.

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.

The German company Retina Implant AG has developed an implantable microchip that's installed directly under the retina, which stimulates intact inner nerve cells to produce artificial vision.

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

Coffey is part of a trial sponsored by the drug company Pfizer awaiting approval in the United Kingdom that will slip a patch of hESC - derived RPE cells under the retina instead of injecting them in a liquid suspension.

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.

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.

«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.

Affecting more than 150 million patients worldwide, AMD is associated with an accumulation of drusen (deposits of lipid and fatty proteins) under the retina, and patients with AMD experience blurred vision or blindness in the center of the visual field.

Of the 23 patients, 10 experienced an elimination of the deposits under the retina and mild improvement in visual acuity.

They can be grown on a plastic sheet and that plastic sheet can be rolled up and inserted under the retina, and then unrolled under the retina.