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The broad scope of research carried out at The Miami Project has focused on answering questions that help define human spinal cord injury and reveal strategies for repair.
The Miami Project has announced its Clinical Trials Initiative, an effort aimed at carefully taking new research discoveries to human clinical trial.
Cures should alleviate the multiple consequences of injury. Miami Project researchers carry out a broad scope of research directed at complex challenges.
October 9, 2009 – Researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have identified a family of genes that may control the ability of the optic nerve to regenerate. The discovery of this gene family, as published in the October 9 issue of Science, is a big step forward for both visual science and neuroscience. The finding may one day lead to advances in diseases such as glaucoma and optic nerve stroke (also called anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, or AION), as well as spinal cord injury and other neurodegenerative diseases of the brain and spinal cord.
The axons of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) form the optic nerve which transmits electrical impulses from the retina to the brain allowing a person to see. RGCs that are damaged or injured result in diminished or lost vision. Once thought incapable of regenerating, RGCs showed improved regeneration in the optic nerve after manipulating one of these recently identified genes.
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The broad scope of research carried out at The Miami Project has focused on answering questions that help define human spinal cord injury and reveal strategies for repair.