Professor Claus Cursiefen co-authored a review article that presents corneal stromal stem cells (CSSCs) as a new therapeutic target for corneal injuries and diseases. Corneal impairments are prominent causes of blindness. Since access to corneal transplantation is challenging, research may focus on...
» A review on corneal stromal stem cells
Professor Eberhart Zrenner contributed to a research article that aims to understand the lateral gap junction (GJ)-mediated communication pathway in photoreceptor-degenerated retinas, which is crucial for effective treatment of functional disorders of neuronal membrane channels. GJs play a vital...
» Modulating gap junction permeability in photoreceptor-degenerated retinas
Professor Serge Picaud supervised a study that, for the first time, demonstrated the use of high-frequency ultrasonic stimulation after ectopic expression of a mechanosensitive ion channel of large conductance (MscL) to activate the visual cortex. MscL was expressed in vivo in both rat retinal...
» Sonogenetic for vision restoration
Professor Hendrik Scholl co-authored a Nature Biotechnology publication. The study characterized retinal organoids by integrating iterative indirect immunofluorescence imaging with a computational approach, dense single-cell RNA sequencing, and a single-cell assay for transposase-accessible...
» Toward a virtual human retinal organoid