Ingredient in hair dye led to woman’s vision loss

An ingredient in the hair dye a French woman used caused her to develop a vision-robbing retinopathy, researchers report. When she switched to a dye without these ingredients, called aromatic

Reprogramming stem cells to make ‘retinal sheets’ to treat blindness in minipigs

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Millions of people around the world are affected by retinal degenerative diseases. In most cases, loss of vision is caused by damage to the macula, a

Gene therapy discovery triggers hope for glaucoma patients

Modulation of tau expression in C57BL/6 mice retinas. Credit: Acta Neuropathologica Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1186/s40478-024-01804-0 The protein tau is essential to the function of cells in the brain and central