Retinal transplants bear threefold fruit

Darkfrog submitted, created time 3 months 4 weeks (www.nature.com)

A formerly clinically blind woman's vision improved from 20/800 to 20/160--from one-fortieth of ordinary vision to one-eighth--after receiving donated retina. Six months after the operation, the started noticing the pendulum in her grandfather clock. For years, she found that she could read large-print books and emails and returned to her hobbies, knitting and sewing. Now, six years after her operation, her vision is fading, but it is still better than it was before the operation

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Becare of the angiotensin II type 1 receptor : it can blockade attenuates TGF- –induced failure of muscle regeneration in multiple myopathic states

DNA2004 submitted, created time 1 year 10 months (www.nature.com)

Skeletal muscle has the ability to achieve rapid repair in response to injury or disease1. Many individuals with Marfan syndrome (MFS), caused by a deficiency of extracellular fibrillin-1, exhibit myopathy and often are unable to increase muscle mass despite physical exercise. Evidence suggests that selected manifestations of MFS reflect excessive signaling by transforming growth factor (TGF)- (refs. 2,3)

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