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·April 17, 2025·6 min read

Gold Nanoparticles Restore Vision in Macular Degeneration

A new study shows that gold nanoparticles injected into the retina can restore vision in mice with retinal degeneration, offering a less invasive alternative to current retinal prostheses. When activated by patterned infrared light, these nanoparticles stimulate retinal cells, bypassing damaged photoreceptors.

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·July 20, 2022·6 min read

A New Way to Fight Pigmentary Retinopathy

The visual system adapts to the loss of photoreception by increasing sensitivity but simultaneously becomes deleteriously hyperactive. The findings could lead to new therapies to protect vision or reverse vision loss.

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·March 20, 2022·7 min read

Antabuse May Help Revive Vision in People With Progressive Blinding Disorders

Antabuse, a drug commonly prescribed to treat alcohol use disorder, may help to restore eyesight in people with genetic retinitis pigmentosa and other disorders associated with retinal degeneration.

This shows how C3 microglia acts to resolve RP

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·June 17, 2019·4 min read

Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease: Mouse study

Study reveals C3, which can cause damage in some eye diseases, may help to slow the progression of retinitis pigmentosa.

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·March 17, 2019·8 min read

With single gene insertion, blind mice regain sight

Gene therapy that targets retinal ganglion cells with light-sensitive cone opsins helps restore vision in mice. Researchers report a potential human treatment could be available within three years.

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·January 12, 2017·4 min read

New Transplant Technique Restores Vision in Mice

Researchers transplant retinas derived from stem cells to restore vision in mice.

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·April 28, 2015·3 min read

Photovoltaic Retinal Implant Could Restore Functional Sight

New retinal implants could restore vision up to five times better than current technology, a new study reports.

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·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.

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·August 2, 2012·3 min read

Planarians Offer A Better View of Eye Development

Planarian flatworms have come under intense study for their renowned ability to regenerate any missing body part, even as adults. But now they may take on a starring role as a model system for studying eye development and eye diseases in vertebrates, including humans.

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·July 25, 2012·4 min read

Chemical Makes Blind Mice See

A team of University of California, Berkeley, scientists in collaboration with researchers at the University of Munich and University of Washington, in Seattle, has discovered a chemical that temporarily restores some vision to blind mice, and is working on an improved compound that may someday allow people with degenerative blindness to see again.