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Study reveals that brain injuries can cause intracellular transport defects that can potentially lead to protein build-up and neurodegenerative disease.
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Algae proteins partially restore blind manâs vision, study says
By Catherine Park
FILE - A doctor examines the eye of a patient.
Researchers believe algae could be the solution to fixing blindness after one patient who received an experimental treatment had his vision partially restored, according to a recent study. Optogenetics may enable mutation-independent, circuit-specific restoration of neuronal function in neurological diseases, according to the study, published in Nature Medicine
this month.
For the study, doctors were treating a patient with retinitis pigmentosa, which impacts more than two million people worldwide, the study’s authors said.
Retinitis pigmentosa is a neurodegenerative eye disease where loss of photoreceptors can lead to complete blindness, the study said.