Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 118, No. 21 (May 25, 2021), pp. 1-12 (12 pages) Loss of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) because of ...

Blinding eye diseases like macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and glaucoma are accompanied by the death of neurons in the retina that leads to blindness. Although several strategies are being ...

New study decodes the molecular diversity of neurons in the zebrafish retina. Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are the bottleneck through which all visual impressions flow from the retina to the brain. A ...

Brain circuits for vision develop without any kind of input from the retina in zebrafish. Animals possess specialized networks of neurons in the brain that receive signals about the outside world from ...

The ability of some animals to dynamically change color to match the brightness of their surroundings is one of nature's ...

The vertebrate rod and cone photoreceptors are highly specialized sensory neurons that transduce light into the chemical and electrical signals of the nervous system. Although the physiological ...

Zebrafish photoreceptor cells stimulated with blue light show correct electrical activity. The picture was taken using the microscope that was custom-built for this study. Blinding diseases lead to ...

A unique oral drug candidate that is shown to restore vision and regenerate the retina in an animal model, addressing a major unmet need in ocular therapeutics The study utilized the Sen57wrn-/-ND6-/+ ...

Around 15 years ago, a group of researchers discovered mutant zebrafish. The eyes of these zebrafish did not develop correctly. Now, researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology ...