Friday, December 26, 2008

December 27 Podcast Now Ready



Dr. Stuart Mangel




Dr. Connie Cepko

On the show, Dr. Stuart Mangel of Ohio State University School of Biomedicine explains how rods and cones can work together to boost night vision.

Also, Dr. Connie Cepko of Boston's Harvard Medical School talks about retinitis pigmentosa and how the death of rod and cone cells are related.


Tuesday, December 9, 2008

December 13 Podcast Ready


Mark Traffas



Dr. Tom Reh

On this week's show, we'll have Sightpath Medical's Mark Traffas explaining the Foresee Preferential Hyperacuity Perimeter (PHP) system, which is a specialized visual field testing system that monitors the progression of macular degeneration.

Then, Dr. Tom Reh of the University of Washington's College of Medicine in Seattle tells us about research involving the regeneration of retinal cells in live mice.