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    Dried Goji Berries may provide Protection Against Age-Related Vision Loss

    January 15, 2022, Categories  Health/Medical, Biology/Biotechnology

    Study finds a small serving of goji berries increased protective pigments in the eye that may help prevent or delay the development of age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of vision loss in older adults. (Photo/ UC Regents)

    Regularly eating a small serving of dried goji berries may help prevent or delay the development of age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, in healthy middle-aged people, according to a small, randomized trial conducted at the University of California, Davis.

    AMD is the leading cause of vision loss in older people, and is estimated to affect more than 11 million in the United States and 170 million globally.

    “AMD affects your central field of vision and can affect your ability to read or recognize faces,” said Glenn Yiu, a co-author of the study...

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    Researchers Rescue Photoreceptors, Prevent Blindness in animal models of Age-Related Macular Degeneration

    January 17, 2019, Categories  Health/Medical, Biology/Biotechnology

    The researchers will take a patient’s own blood cells, and in a lab, convert them into iPS cells capable of becoming any type of cell in the body. The iPS cells are then programmed to become retinal pigment epithelial cells, the type of cell that dies early in the geographic atrophy form of AMD.
    Credit: National Eye Institute

    Findings set stage for first clinical trial of stem cell-based therapeutic approach for AMD. Using a novel patient-specific stem cell-based therapy, researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI) prevented blindness in animal models of geographic atrophy, the advanced “dry” form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is a leading cause of vision loss among people age 65 and older. The protocols established by the animal study, published Jan...

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