Do not shield your eyes . These burnished biological blobs may look like something from a garish 80s party , but they could help break the years - related macular degeneration that causes eyesight to deteriorate over time .
This persona shows the stock vessels — in blue — of the retina of a shiner . The neon blobs are the nuclei of the cells that draw their walls and the scandalmongering ones are in the process of dividing , as cell are wo nt to do . But ecxcess cell division here get more blood vessels to form — which is what really get eld - related macular degeneration . When researcher genetically modified mice to block a protein called Slit2,they foundthe cell division in the retina was much slower — stopping the onrush of cecity . Now the team is lick to establish if a drug could be developed to blockade the same protein for use in man . [ Nature MedicineviaNew Scientist ]
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