Female Mice Pay a Heavier Price: Sex Hormones Speed Retinal Degeneration
New research shows that female mice lacking the protein quality-control gene Herc3 suffer faster retinal thinning, greater inflammatory activation, and ...
Tag: photoreceptors
Engineered AAV Capsid Reaches the Outer Retina Through a Simple Eye Injection
Researchers used directed evolution to create AAV5-AlyT, an adeno-associated virus variant that delivers genes efficiently to photoreceptors after minimally invasive ...
RNA Methylation Enzyme METTL16 Emerges as Guardian of Rod Photoreceptor Survival
New research shows that the RNA methyltransferase METTL16 protects rod photoreceptors by safeguarding splicing fidelity, mRNA stability, and translation, and ...
Light-Sensitive Genes Offer New Hope for Restoring Vision in Blind Patients
A new Gene Therapy review charts how mutation-agnostic optogenetic gene therapy could restore vision in blind patients, while detailing the ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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