Editor’s Choice 2023-24

To understand a range of vision-related disorders and opportunities for new therapeutic solutions to those, researchers in the lab of Jeff Gross study the eyes of zebrafish. Seen here is the retina of an adult zebrafish from a transgenic line that expresses a green fluorescent protein in cells known as Müller cells. Müller cells are the stem cells of the eye and can divide and regenerate into any cell type in the retina to repair damage. They become activated upon injury in zebrafish. The Gross lab uses this transgenic fishline to study and better understand regeneration in the eye.

Credit:
Dr. Reza Raeisossadati
Department of Molecular Biosciences