Aug 28, 2015 | animal research, animals helping animals, animals helping humans, Conditions, treatment
A new gene therapy study in mice is restoring lost vision and allowing them to detect objects, like a predator, when previously they could not. Researchers placed rhodopsin, a human gene used by cells to detect light, in the eye behind the damaged rods and cones of blind mice. This gave the receptor cells bipolar […]
Mar 26, 2015 | animal research, animals helping humans, Conditions, Medical Research, prevention, treatment
Using antioxidant gene therapy, scientists are slowing down vision loss and cell death by boosting photoreceptor cell’s own antioxidant powers. Rods and cones (photoreceptors) allow us to see light and transmit the information to the brain. When these cells get too much oxygen, such that occurs in a disease process like Retinitis Pigmosa, these cells […]
