Thursday, July 26, 2012
Blind Mice See, Maybe Will Work on People
"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," according to a Science Daily post. "The approach could eventually help those with retinitis pigmentosa, a
genetic disease that is the most common inherited form of blindness, as
well as age-related macular degeneration, the most common cause of
acquired blindness in the developed world. In both diseases, the light
sensitive cells in the retina -- the rods and cones -- die, leaving the
eye without functional photoreceptors." Read more.
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