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NEI Audacious Goals Initiative for regenerative medicine in vision identity mark

Eye institute’s audacious quest: What once was lost might now be regrown

The National Eye Institute (NEI) Audacious Goals Initiative (AGI) is exploring the possibility that the natural world holds the keys to restorative therapies that might unlock regenerative powers in humans.
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New Method Uses Noise to Make Spectrometers More Accurate

Researchers at the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering have come up a with a new, rapid method for characterizing and calibrating spectrometers, based on how they respond to noise.

Therapy using immune system cells preserves vision in mice implanted with rare eye cancer

A treatment that uses immune system T-cells, combined with an immune-boosting drug packaged in an injectable gel, was found to preserve the vision of mice implanted with tissue from a human eye cancer known as retinoblastoma.

Traveling brain waves help detect hard-to-see objects

Salk scientists discover patterns of neural waves in the awake brain that help detect objects.

OMRF discovery holds potential for reversing vision loss

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientists have identified a compound that could give birth to therapies for a host of eye diseases that include retinopathy of prematurity and diabetic retinopathy.
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AGI-supported researchers discover gene pathways that regenerate neurons between the eye and the brain

A team of researchers has identified networks of genes that allow neurons to regenerate in animals like zebrafish.
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Could a tiny fish hold the key to curing blindness?

NEI-funded scientists are hacking the zebrafish’s innate regenerative capacity to learn how to treat human disease.
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How is night vision maintained during retinal disease?

New research from the University of Utah provides insight on how people with retinal degenerative disease can maintain their night vision for a relatively long period of time.
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Live imaging method brings structural information to mapping of brain function

NEI-funded study shows coupling of structure and function at a sub-cellular level in visual areas of the mouse brain
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Real neurons are noisy. Can a retinal prosthetic figure that out?

The brain’s visual centers must be adept at filtering out noise from retinal cells to get to the true signal, and those filters have to constantly adapt. Prosthetic retinas are going to need this same filtering to succeed, NEI-funded research shows.

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