Our latest blog post veers from the traditional focus on a singular research paper to bring you an enthralling narrative at the crossroads of progressive inherited retinal dystrophy (IRD), the frigid expanses of Antarctica, marathon endurance, the expressive world of art, and the transformative realm of retinal research. This story encompasses gene editing, animal models,
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2022
Where do research ideas come from?
Where do research ideas come from? Do they arrive in a thunderbolt eureka moment, or do they start as an observation or hunch, requiring some time to simmer, brew, incubate and grow? Some may evolve from an accidental or serendipitous discovery during a routine process. Observant operators of the Phoenix MICRON® retinal imaging system may
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2022
Analysis of imaging, structure and function using Phoenix MICRON™ modalities expand the understanding of ocular features of Down Syndrome in mouse models
In their paper “Quantitative Analysis of Retinal Structure and Function in Two Chromosomally Altered Mouse Models of Down Syndrome”, researchers Victorino, Scott-McKean, et al leveraged the multi-modality capabilities of the Phoenix MICRON™ retinal imaging platform, to produce an image-rich research paper looking at the ocular features of Down Syndrome in two mouse models; Ts65Dn and
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Deep learning provides unbiased evaluation of uveitis severity levels in 1500 Phoenix MICRON® mouse fundus images
In 2020, researchers Jian Sun, Xiaoqin Huang et al, in the Laboratory of Immunology at the National Eye Institute, confirmed in the lab what has been going on in human ophthalmology in recent years, but with a twist. Their deep learning model enabled identification of retinal disease stages with noteworthy accuracy. What marked their work