blindness Archives - Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network

A novel strategy can potentially address a major challenge to the current treatment for CNV, the leading cause of irreversible blindness in the elderly.

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Tracing outlines on the brain triggers shape perception

May 26, 2020May 26, 2020blindness, Brain Stimulation, Research, visual cortex

‘Seeing’ without eyes may one day become a reality for blind people whose eyes or optic nerve, but not the visual cortex of the brain,

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Zooming in on cilia sheds light into blinding diseases

December 17, 2019December 17, 2019Bardet-Biedl syndrome, blindness, cilia, cryoelectron tomography, Research, STORM, vision

Cilia are short hair-like structures found on the surface of most cells. They play important roles in human and animal development and in every day

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Orion shines a light in the dark for the blind

July 11, 2019November 22, 2019blindness, clinical trial, Orion device, Research, vision

In a dark room inside Baylor College of Medicine, study participants are asked to look at a blacked out computer screen and point to a

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Activating the retina’s ability to restore vision

May 14, 2019May 14, 2019blindness, Hippo, Müller glial cells, Research, restoring vision loss, YAP

Damage to the retina can lead to irreparable loss of vision in humans and other mammals because their retinas do not regenerate. That is not

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Mutations in CWC27 result in spectrum of conditions

April 13, 2017blindness, craniofacial and skeletal problems, CWC27, Genetics, Retinitis pigmentosa, spliceosome, whole exome sequencing

Mingchu Xu searches for genes linked to retinitis pigmentosa, a condition of the retina characterized by progressive development of night blindness and tunnel vision, sometimes from

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Improving the view on the genetic causes of retinitis pigmentosa

January 13, 2017blindness, CRISPR/Cas9, Genetics, REEP6, Retinitis pigmentosa, visula impairment

Progressive development of night blindness and tunnel vision, sometimes from the early age of 2, are trademarks of retinitis pigmentosa. Being the most common inherited