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Featured Neuroscience

·August 14, 2012·5 min read

An Artificial Retina With the Capacity to Restore Normal Vision

Researchers decipher the retina's neural code for brain communication to create novel, more effective prosthetic retinal device for blindness.

neurons

Featured Neuroscience

·May 17, 2018·7 min read

Crowdsourcing Brain Mapping with Gaming Helps Identify 6 New Neuron Types

Players of the popular online brain mapping game Eyewire have assisted in identifying six new neuron types, researchers report.

Image shows drosophila compound eye.

Featured Genetics Open Neuroscience Articles

·October 9, 2015·4 min read

Enlightening Discoveries: How the Eye Processes Light

Researchers have made novel discoveries about how the eye processes light on both cellular and molecular levels.

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Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·December 1, 2022·4 min read

Ganglion Cells Created in Mice in Bid to Fix Diseased Eyes

Researchers induced non-neural cells that mimic ganglion cells in the eyes of mice, effectively reducing the impact of certain eye diseases. They hope to next replicate their technique in humans in order to help restore vision lost due to eye diseases.

Diagram shows human retinal ganglion cells are shown at day 50.

Featured Genetics Open Neuroscience Articles Visual Neuroscience

·December 1, 2015·4 min read

Growing Retinal Nerve Cells in a Lab

Researchers have developed a new method that efficiently turns human stem cells into retinal ganglion cells.

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Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·September 28, 2017·4 min read

How Do We Sense Moonlight and Daylight? Neurons Share Job of Sensing Ambient Light Levels

Study revels M1 ganglion cell photoreceptors can tune into different ranges of light intensity.

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Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Visual Neuroscience

·February 23, 2017·3 min read

How the Thalamus Helps Us to See

Researchers report on the role the thalamus plays in visual processing.

retinal cells

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·June 23, 2018·5 min read

Important Step Towards a Computer Model That Predicts the Outcome of Eye Diseases

A new model of the retina can predict the outcome of defined perturbation.

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Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·September 28, 2021·5 min read

Living Retina Achieves Sensitivity and Efficiency Engineers Can Only Dream About

Study reveals how evolution and natural selection have optimized the mammalian retina.

The image shows a person looking at the computer screen with the projection for the maze on it.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·February 26, 2014·3 min read

Maze Puts Images on Floor Where Rats Look

Projecting images onto the floor of a maze, rodents can learn behaviors faster.

The image is a diagram of the photoreceptor stimulation.

Featured Genetics

·December 8, 2014·7 min read

New Therapy Holds Promise for Restoring Vision

New genetic treatment helps restore light sensitivity in blind mice, a new study reports.

·May 14, 2012·6 min read

New Type of Retinal Prosthesis Could Better Restore Sight to Blind

Using tiny solar-panel-like cells surgically placed underneath the retina, scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a...

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