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These retinal images are from an 84 year old white male who presented to the Moran Eye Center in 2008.  He was diagnosed and followed for dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) with serial autofluorescent photographs showing progression of geographic atrophy of the RPE from 2008 to 2014. These images were prepared by James Gilman of the Moran Eye Center.

This is a 58 year old white female with a retinal astrocytic hamartomaon her right optic nerve.  Retinal astrocytic hamartomas are glial tumors of the retinal nerve fiber layer arising from retinal astrocytes. This animated GIF file illustrates the height of the hamartoma and is another example of where animated gifs can be a fantastic teaching …

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Ever since the first proposal that light exists as both a wave and a particle, people have been attempting experiments designed to directly view both the particle and wave aspects of light simultaneously.  This theory won Albert Einstein the Nobel Prize in 1921 and now, a new paper in Nature claims to have done just this. …

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There is an interesting paper from an evo devo perspective out of the Jékely laboratory, looking at the connectomics of some of the earliest of organized visual systems in the Platynereis dumerilii larva.  They have described a visual circuit consisting of 71 neurons and 1,106 “connections”.  The cool thing about this study was that they were also …

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I participated in the Lasker/IRRF Initiative on Restoring Vision to the Blind in March 2014. It was a great session of research leaders working on various approaches to restore visual function lost by retinal degenerative disease. The purpose of the meeting was to identify the key issues hampering research progress and to develop innovative proposals …

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