When injected into mice with retinal disease, the special retinal blood cells integrated into the damaged tissue to ...

This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. This story also starts a series exploring the complexities of human anatomy and physiology. Each story in this ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to grow specialized blood vessel ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to grow specialized blood vessel cells critical to retinal health for the first time. When injected into mouse ...

Preclinical study showed iRECs Integrated into host vascular network and revascularized the ischemic eye, rescuing the tissue.

Blind people could one day regain their sight after lab-grown cells restored retinal function in mice, according to a ...

Retinitis pigmentosa retinal degeneration is caused by a family of hereditary mutations in nearly 100 genes that slowly lead to blindness over years or decades. One of those genes encodes the enzyme ...

The same genes could hold the key to regenerating cells in the ear and eye, according to a new mouse study from the USC Stem Cell laboratory of Ksenia Gnedeva, Ph.D., published in the Proceedings of ...

Pictured is mouse optic nerve and retina, responsible for relaying information from the eye to the brain. The tissue has been fluorescently stained to reveal the distribution of astrocytes (yellow), ...