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Degenerated RPE cells from mice with geographic atrophy are shown at left. Treating the mice with NRTIs protected the RPE cells. Photos courtesy of Jayakrishna Ambati, M.D.

HIV drugs show promise for “dry” AMD

A class of medications long used to curb HIV infection shows promise as a therapy for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), suggest findings from an NIH-funded study.
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New research unlocks a mystery of albinism

Newly published research provides the first demonstration of how a genetic mutation associated with a common form of albinism leads to the lack of melanin pigments that characterizes the condition.
Grantee News

Elderly brains learn, but maybe too much

A new study finds that in learning a visual task, older people exhibited a surprising degree of plasticity, but had trouble filtering out irrelevant information.
Clinical study of a new eye drop may offer hope to patients with dry eye. Photo courtesy of Patrick Walderzak.

NEI sets stage for new clinical trial to tackle dry eye

For some people it feels like a speck of sand in the eye, or stinging or burning that doesn’t go away. For others, dry eye disease (or simply dry eye) can become a chronic condition that leads to blurred vision or even vision loss if it goes untreated.
Grantee News

New Glaucoma Culprit Is Found

In a unique study of human ocular cells, a multi-institution research team finds that glaucoma appears to be a consequence of mechanical dysfunction of a thin layer of cells that is the final barrier to fluid entering Schlemm's canal.
Grantee News

"Haven't I Seen This Before?" Researchers Show How Neurons Respond to Sequences of Familiar Objects

A new study reveals how neurons in the part of the brain responsible for recognizing objects respond to being shown a barrage of images.
Grantee News

Proteins critical to wound healing identified

Research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis may have implications for treating diseases involving abnormal blood vessel growth, such as the impaired wound healing often seen in diabetes.
Grantee News

Birthday Matters for Wiring-Up the Brain’s Vision Centers

New study suggests that neurons in the developing brains of mice are guided by a simple but elegant birth order rule that allows them to find and form their proper connections.
Retinal pigment epithelium derived from induced pluripotent stem cells. Photo credit: Dr. Kapil Bharti.

Gene profiling technique to accelerate stem cell therapies for eye diseases

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have developed a technique that will speed up the production of stem-cell derived tissues.
Grantee News

Patient-Specific Stem Cells and Personalized Gene Therapy

Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have created a way to develop personalized gene therapies for patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a leading cause of vision loss.

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