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Dr. Valerie Wallace
Survival of the Fittest: Sustaining Cells Through Transplantation

In many retinal diseases, vision loss occurs when cells that are crucial for vision are damaged or lost. This is the case, for example, in age-related macular degeneration (AMD), retinitis pigmentosa, choroideremia,…

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Dr. Sarah McFarlane
Understanding the Retina: AMD and Exploratory Science

In medicine, innovative treatments don’t emerge out of thin air. They are the result of a series of advancements in our understanding of how genes, molecules, and cells interact. The human eye…

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iPSCs
The Value of iPSCs for Stem Cell Therapy

Stem cell therapy has emerged as one of the most promising approaches in the fight to end blindness, and Dr. Gilbert Bernier’s research has played an enormous role in pushing the field…

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Neon Cells
Clinician-Scientist Emerging Leader Award: Dr. Brian Ballios

Dr. Brian Ballios has restored vision in mice, but he is not stopping there. He is on a mission to develop stem cell therapies for people living with blindness and has a…

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Could Artificial Intelligence Revolutionize the Treatment of Eye Diseases?

Artificial intelligence is in the news more frequently than ever, but it’s not typically associated with vision research. That may not be the case for long: incredible progress is being made in…

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Top 10 Science-y Summer Tips

So far this year, the pace of vision research has been sizzling! To celebrate the arrival of sizzling weather, we asked Fighting Blindness Canada (FBC) staff to share their favourite FBC science…

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