Planarians Offer a Better View of Eye Development
Thursday, August 2, 2012 - 12:03
in Health & Medicine
Whitehead Institute researchers have created a complete catalog of genes active in the planarian eye. Several identified genes are known to have versions that play a role in the vertebrate eye, including genes involved in eye development and age-related macular degeneration and Usher syndrome, a disorder that causes progressive retinal degradation.