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Appreciating the Beauty of the Retina
Research NewsEven though the best retinal researchers still don’t understand the science completely, everyone can appreciate the basics, including how to keep their retinas as healthy as possible.
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Safely Harnessing the Power of Stem Cells
Research NewsIn the not-too-distant future, researchers will be able to turn stem cells into new photoreceptors for people who have lost vision to a retinal disease. But they must also carefully harness their power to ensure positive consequences.
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Why Face Recognition Can Be Difficult with Central Vision Loss
Research NewsDiseases such as age-related macular degeneration, cone-rod dystrophy and Stargardt disease cause scotomas, or blind spots, which often have devastating effects on central vision. They cause gaps in a person’s visual field, making it difficult to see words in a book, images on a computer monitor or TV and the features of someone’s face.
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Orphan Drugs Get Special Treatment
Research NewsFor developers of treatments for rare diseases — including inherited retinal conditions — “orphan” status provides valuable benefits, such as tax incentives, access to special research grants and assistance with clinical trial design.
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Getting the Right Diagnosis for a Retinal Disease
Research NewsDefinitive diagnoses for inherited retinal diseases don’t always come easy, even for the patients of the most knowledgeable doctors.
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Research has suggested that DHA in your diet is good for preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases, neurological conditions, depression and a slew of other conditions and maladies, including those that affect the retina.
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Thanks to recent advances in stem cell research, we are getting closer to replacing cells in the retina lost to diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration.
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Turning Stem Cells Into "Super" Models
Research NewsScientists have found a way to take a small skin or blood sample from a patient, turn back the clock on those sample cells so they become stem cells, and then coax them forward to become photoreceptors, or any other cell type in the body.
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Nobel Prize Winners Have Big Impact on Emerging Retinal Treatments
Research NewsThe 2012 Nobel Medicine prize winners are having an enormous impact on sight-saving retinal research.
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Tempering the Immune System to Save Vision
Research NewsGreat progress is being made in identifying targets for therapies, including using the body’s own protective systems to keep the photoreceptors alive.
