Retinal ganglion cells
Retinal ganglion cells are neurons that send information about light from the eye to the brain via a structure called the optic nerve. Here new neurons (green) and their supporting cells, called astrocytes (red), were created in a petri dish from stem cells. Making retinal ganglion cells and astrocytes from stem cells may one day help doctors rewire optic nerves damaged by glaucoma.
Credit: National Eye Institute, NIH
(Courtesy of Thomas V. Johnson, Naoki Nakaya, and Stanislav Tomarev of the NEI Laboratory of Retinal Cell and Molecular Biology, Molecular Mechanisms of Glaucoma Section)
Retinal ganglion cells
Retinal ganglion cells are neurons that send information about light from the eye to the brain via a structure called the optic nerve. Here new neurons (green) and their supporting cells, called astrocytes (red), were created in a petri dish from stem cells. Making retinal ganglion cells and astrocytes from stem cells may one day help doctors rewire optic nerves damaged by glaucoma.
Credit: National Eye Institute, NIH
(Courtesy of Thomas V. Johnson, Naoki Nakaya, and Stanislav Tomarev of the NEI Laboratory of Retinal Cell and Molecular Biology, Molecular Mechanisms of Glaucoma Section)