Retinal Prion Disease Study Redefines Role for Brain Cells



"National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists studying the progression of inherited and infectious eye diseases that can cause blindness have found that microglia, a type of nervous system cell suspected to cause retinal damage, surprisingly had no damaging role during prion disease in mice.".........Source:  NIH news release 3/31/2019 







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