ADVANCED HEALTHCARE MATERIALS, New Jersey (USA), 11 November 2024.
With more than 140 million nerve cells, the retina is our first stage of the visual system and window to the outside world. The cover article by Seungkuk Ahn, Daniel J. Müller and co-workers uses electromagnetically guided viruses to specifically transduce each of the retina layers.
To visualize this study an image of the porcine retina used in the experiments was created in collaboration with the science team at the ETHZ in Basel. The picture exposes the retina network and blood vessels that are essential to provide 140 million receptor cells with all the energy and oxygen it takes to stay on alert and transmit signals 18-times a second – all day long!
Published: Seungkuk Ahn et al., In ADVANCED HEALTHCARE MATERIALS. Science 382, 529-531(2023). DOI:10.1002/adhm202401577
Credits: © Martin Oeggerli (Micronaut) 2024, with Seungkuk Ahn and Daniel Mueller, D-BSSE, ETHZ Basel, Nano Imaging Lab (SNI), and University Hospital Basel (Pathology).
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