Bridge of Sight

Sight depends on the many different cell types of the eye's retina all functioning correctly in the right place. The photoreceptor cells (PRC) that respond to the light and transduce that response to the brain are constantly being degraded and renewed. Ingestion of the degraded material is managed by the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), normally in close contact with PRC. This study now shows that RPE continue to perform their function in eye diseases where PRC and RPE are separated, thanks to the ability of RPE to reach out pseudopodia (membrane extensions) across that gap. Shown is a 3D reconstruction of an RPE pseudopod (light green) bridging the expanded sub-retinal space in a mouse model of a retinal degenerative disease.

Read the published research article here

Image from work by Tylor R. Lewis and colleagues

Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Journal of Clinical Investigation, April 2026

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I recently attended a medical college fest which was amazing btw.

I saw this really cute guy and I ran into him like 5-6 times in just one day, we even had a micro conversation.

But I couldn't find him at all in the next 2 days, like idk man he was nowhere to be found...

I think I just lost my shot, and now I'm sad

Quindi se scriverete dovete sapere che sarò io a leggere (suo fratello) perché lui in questo momento non vede nulla.

p.s.

sotto dettatura stressante di decadence

I discovered a few years ago from my ophthalmologist(a university professor and surgeon) who checks my retina every 6 months because I am so nearsighted that the eye has grown so much that it's thinned my retina dangerously, that had I been told as a child AKA while I was physically developing AKA my eye physically developing to only wear my glasses when I absolutely needed them that I wouldn't have this extent of a problem. Because no one else in my family does. It's not a familial genetic thing. Apparently because I wore my glasses at all times even when it didn't strictly speaking need them because my vision wasn't that bad back then, it kept making the eye compensate in a way I'm not sure I know how to work articulate. But it kept making the eye grow more and more the more it grew the stronger the lens got and the worse the growth of the eye became so the stronger the lens got etc etc