NEI Research News

A multi-university team identified a family of enzymes called GCK-IV kinases whose inhibition is robustly neuroprotective, while also permitting axon regeneration.

Scientists reverse age-related vision loss, glaucoma damage in mice.

Researchers at Ohio State and the University of Michigan discovered a new type of immune cell that not only rescues damaged nerve cells from death, but partially reverses nerve fiber damage.

A newly developed light-sensing protein called the MCO1 opsin restores vision in blind mice when attached to retina bipolar cells using gene therapy.

New generation CRISPR technology lays foundation for therapeutics to treat a wide range of inherited ocular diseases

Researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt College of Medicine hope to conquer a major limitation in the ability for scientists to engineer tissues for regenerative therapies for age-related and degenerative diseases.

The National Eye Institute (NEI) Audacious Goals Initiative (AGI) is exploring the possibility that the natural world holds the keys to restorative therapies that might unlock regenerative powers in humans.

A team of researchers has identified networks of genes that allow neurons to regenerate in animals like zebrafish.

NEI-funded scientists are hacking the zebrafish’s innate regenerative capacity to learn how to treat human disease.

New research from the University of Utah provides insight on how people with retinal degenerative disease can maintain their night vision for a relatively long period of time.