SALT LAKE CITY — A team of researchers at the University of Utah’s John A. Moran Eye Center have succeeded in reviving neurons and communication in human donor eyes, which they said could transform brain and vision research.
This study, they said, will benefit research on other neuronal tissues in the central nervous system and help researchers better understand neurodegenerative diseases, like macular degeneration.
“We were able to wake up photoreceptor cells in the human macula, which is the part of the retina responsible for our central vision and our ability to see fine detail and color,” said Moran Eye Center scientist Fatima Abbas, lead author of a study published on Wednesday in Nature.
Abbas said age-related macular degeneration, which leads to blindness, affects about 10% of the population, she said.
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