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Gustavo Aguirre performing an eye exam |
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Penn Vets Identify Blindness Gene
Three decades of research yields results
Did You Know…
that, after more than three decades of research,
Penn veterinarians and vision-research scientists have identified a
gene responsible for a blindness-inducing disease that
afflicts dogs? In the process, the Penn scientists may have discovered
clues about how retinal cells, and perhaps even neurons, can be
regenerated. The research was conducted by
Gustavo D. Aguirre,
William A. Beltran,
Agnes I. Berta, and Sem Genini of Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine,
along with Kathleen Boesze-Battaglia
of the Penn School of Dental Medicine. They
collaborated with researchers from Cornell, the National Eye Institute, and Hungary’s Semmelweis University of Medicine.
To learn more about the Penn team’s research please see: http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/penn-researchers-find-new-twist-blindness-causing-disease-gene-0
To read the actual PLoS-ONE-published
study please see:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0024074
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