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Snails gold clue to human sight restoration
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Scientists are hoping they could one day repair damaged human eyes — by studying a snail which is already able to do it.
The eye of the apple snail is unusually similar to a human eye but can regrow itself if injured or even amputated.
A study into how this happens has the potential to better understand and find treatments for eye conditions in humans like macular degeneration.
A team from US biomedical research organisation the Stowers Institute for Medical Research discovered the apple snail has complex camera-type eyes like humans.
The researchers have developed tools to alter its genome, resulting in snails with stable gene variations to help better understand the process of regeneration.
The process of apple snail eye regeneration from amputation to full restoration happens n four stages over 28 days.
It begins with wound healing and ends with the emergence of a lens and retina.
Apple snails have eyes that are anatomically similar to those in humans with a lens, cornea, and retina.
The researchers found that a gene called pax6—known to play a crucial role in vertebrate and fruit fly eye development—is also present in apple snails.
In the lab, the team disrupted the pax6 gene function creating healthy snails but with missing eyes.
The snails began to generate eyes. For each stage of the regeneration, the team collected and analysed gene activity.
This information is being used to narrow down which genes are likely most promising for eye regeneration.
OPS: An apple snail. The black dot is one of its eyes
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Snails gold clue to human sight restoration
Ferrari Press Agency
Eyes 1
Ref 17052
06/08/2025
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Picture MUST credit: Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Scientists are hoping they could one day repair damaged human eyes — by studying a snail which is already able to do it.
The eye of the apple snail is unusually similar to a human eye but can regrow itself if injured or even amputated.
A study into how this happens has the potential to better understand and find treatments for eye conditions in humans like macular degeneration.
A team from US biomedical research organisation the Stowers Institute for Medical Research discovered the apple snail has complex camera-type eyes like humans.
The researchers have developed tools to alter its genome, resulting in snails with stable gene variations to help better understand the process of regeneration.
The process of apple snail eye regeneration from amputation to full restoration happens n four stages over 28 days.
It begins with wound healing and ends with the emergence of a lens and retina.
Apple snails have eyes that are anatomically similar to those in humans with a lens, cornea, and retina.
The researchers found that a gene called pax6—known to play a crucial role in vertebrate and fruit fly eye development—is also present in apple snails.
In the lab, the team disrupted the pax6 gene function creating healthy snails but with missing eyes.
The snails began to generate eyes. For each stage of the regeneration, the team collected and analysed gene activity.
This information is being used to narrow down which genes are likely most promising for eye regeneration.
OPS: Researcher Alice Accorsi
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Snails gold clue to human sight restoration
Ferrari Press Agency
Eyes 1
Ref 17052
06/08/2025
See Ferrari text
Picture MUST credit: Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Scientists are hoping they could one day repair damaged human eyes — by studying a snail which is already able to do it.
The eye of the apple snail is unusually similar to a human eye but can regrow itself if injured or even amputated.
A study into how this happens has the potential to better understand and find treatments for eye conditions in humans like macular degeneration.
A team from US biomedical research organisation the Stowers Institute for Medical Research discovered the apple snail has complex camera-type eyes like humans.
The researchers have developed tools to alter its genome, resulting in snails with stable gene variations to help better understand the process of regeneration.
The process of apple snail eye regeneration from amputation to full restoration happens n four stages over 28 days.
It begins with wound healing and ends with the emergence of a lens and retina.
Apple snails have eyes that are anatomically similar to those in humans with a lens, cornea, and retina.
The researchers found that a gene called pax6—known to play a crucial role in vertebrate and fruit fly eye development—is also present in apple snails.
In the lab, the team disrupted the pax6 gene function creating healthy snails but with missing eyes.
The snails began to generate eyes. For each stage of the regeneration, the team collected and analysed gene activity.
This information is being used to narrow down which genes are likely most promising for eye regeneration.
OPS: Researcher Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado,
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Snails gold clue to human sight restoration
Ferrari Press Agency
Eyes 1
Ref 17052
06/08/2025
See Ferrari text
Picture MUST credit: Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Scientists are hoping they could one day repair damaged human eyes — by studying a snail which is already able to do it.
The eye of the apple snail is unusually similar to a human eye but can regrow itself if injured or even amputated.
A study into how this happens has the potential to better understand and find treatments for eye conditions in humans like macular degeneration.
A team from US biomedical research organisation the Stowers Institute for Medical Research discovered the apple snail has complex camera-type eyes like humans.
The researchers have developed tools to alter its genome, resulting in snails with stable gene variations to help better understand the process of regeneration.
The process of apple snail eye regeneration from amputation to full restoration happens n four stages over 28 days.
It begins with wound healing and ends with the emergence of a lens and retina.
Apple snails have eyes that are anatomically similar to those in humans with a lens, cornea, and retina.
The researchers found that a gene called pax6—known to play a crucial role in vertebrate and fruit fly eye development—is also present in apple snails.
In the lab, the team disrupted the pax6 gene function creating healthy snails but with missing eyes.
The snails began to generate eyes. For each stage of the regeneration, the team collected and analysed gene activity.
This information is being used to narrow down which genes are likely most promising for eye regeneration.
OPS: Left to right . The eye regeneration of an apple snail in. stages.
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Snails gold clue to human sight restoration
Ferrari Press Agency
Eyes 1
Ref 17052
06/08/2025
See Ferrari text
Picture MUST credit: Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Scientists are hoping they could one day repair damaged human eyes — by studying a snail which is already able to do it.
The eye of the apple snail is unusually similar to a human eye but can regrow itself if injured or even amputated.
A study into how this happens has the potential to better understand and find treatments for eye conditions in humans like macular degeneration.
A team from US biomedical research organisation the Stowers Institute for Medical Research discovered the apple snail has complex camera-type eyes like humans.
The researchers have developed tools to alter its genome, resulting in snails with stable gene variations to help better understand the process of regeneration.
The process of apple snail eye regeneration from amputation to full restoration happens n four stages over 28 days.
It begins with wound healing and ends with the emergence of a lens and retina.
Apple snails have eyes that are anatomically similar to those in humans with a lens, cornea, and retina.
The researchers found that a gene called pax6—known to play a crucial role in vertebrate and fruit fly eye development—is also present in apple snails.
In the lab, the team disrupted the pax6 gene function creating healthy snails but with missing eyes.
The snails began to generate eyes. For each stage of the regeneration, the team collected and analysed gene activity.
This information is being used to narrow down which genes are likely most promising for eye regeneration.
OPS: Apple Snail eye embryo under the microscope
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Snails gold clue to human sight restoration
Ferrari Press Agency
Eyes 1
Ref 17052
06/08/2025
See Ferrari text
Picture MUST credit: Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Scientists are hoping they could one day repair damaged human eyes — by studying a snail which is already able to do it.
The eye of the apple snail is unusually similar to a human eye but can regrow itself if injured or even amputated.
A study into how this happens has the potential to better understand and find treatments for eye conditions in humans like macular degeneration.
A team from US biomedical research organisation the Stowers Institute for Medical Research discovered the apple snail has complex camera-type eyes like humans.
The researchers have developed tools to alter its genome, resulting in snails with stable gene variations to help better understand the process of regeneration.
The process of apple snail eye regeneration from amputation to full restoration happens n four stages over 28 days.
It begins with wound healing and ends with the emergence of a lens and retina.
Apple snails have eyes that are anatomically similar to those in humans with a lens, cornea, and retina.
The researchers found that a gene called pax6—known to play a crucial role in vertebrate and fruit fly eye development—is also present in apple snails.
In the lab, the team disrupted the pax6 gene function creating healthy snails but with missing eyes.
The snails began to generate eyes. For each stage of the regeneration, the team collected and analysed gene activity.
This information is being used to narrow down which genes are likely most promising for eye regeneration.
OPS: Apple snails. One the left, one with an intact right eye. One the right, one with a regenerating left eye.
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Snails gold clue to human sight restoration
Ferrari Press Agency
Eyes 1
Ref 17052
06/08/2025
See Ferrari text
Picture MUST credit: Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Scientists are hoping they could one day repair damaged human eyes — by studying a snail which is already able to do it.
The eye of the apple snail is unusually similar to a human eye but can regrow itself if injured or even amputated.
A study into how this happens has the potential to better understand and find treatments for eye conditions in humans like macular degeneration.
A team from US biomedical research organisation the Stowers Institute for Medical Research discovered the apple snail has complex camera-type eyes like humans.
The researchers have developed tools to alter its genome, resulting in snails with stable gene variations to help better understand the process of regeneration.
The process of apple snail eye regeneration from amputation to full restoration happens n four stages over 28 days.
It begins with wound healing and ends with the emergence of a lens and retina.
Apple snails have eyes that are anatomically similar to those in humans with a lens, cornea, and retina.
The researchers found that a gene called pax6—known to play a crucial role in vertebrate and fruit fly eye development—is also present in apple snails.
In the lab, the team disrupted the pax6 gene function creating healthy snails but with missing eyes.
The snails began to generate eyes. For each stage of the regeneration, the team collected and analysed gene activity.
This information is being used to narrow down which genes are likely most promising for eye regeneration.
OPS: Apple snails used in the study.
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Snails gold clue to human sight restoration
Ferrari Press Agency
Eyes 1
Ref 17052
06/08/2025
See Ferrari text
Picture MUST credit: Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Scientists are hoping they could one day repair damaged human eyes — by studying a snail which is already able to do it.
The eye of the apple snail is unusually similar to a human eye but can regrow itself if injured or even amputated.
A study into how this happens has the potential to better understand and find treatments for eye conditions in humans like macular degeneration.
A team from US biomedical research organisation the Stowers Institute for Medical Research discovered the apple snail has complex camera-type eyes like humans.
The researchers have developed tools to alter its genome, resulting in snails with stable gene variations to help better understand the process of regeneration.
The process of apple snail eye regeneration from amputation to full restoration happens n four stages over 28 days.
It begins with wound healing and ends with the emergence of a lens and retina.
Apple snails have eyes that are anatomically similar to those in humans with a lens, cornea, and retina.
The researchers found that a gene called pax6—known to play a crucial role in vertebrate and fruit fly eye development—is also present in apple snails.
In the lab, the team disrupted the pax6 gene function creating healthy snails but with missing eyes.
The snails began to generate eyes. For each stage of the regeneration, the team collected and analysed gene activity.
This information is being used to narrow down which genes are likely most promising for eye regeneration.
OPS: Apple snails used in the study.
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Daily Life In Edmonton
EDMONTON, CANADA - JULY 30:
A birch bolete (Leccinum scabrum) partially eaten by snails camouflaged among leaves and forest floor debris in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on July 30, 2025. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto) -
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Daily Life In Edmonton
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A birch bolete (Leccinum scabrum) partially eaten by snails camouflaged among leaves and forest floor debris in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on July 30, 2025. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto) -
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Daily Life In Edmonton
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A birch bolete (Leccinum scabrum) partially eaten by snails camouflaged among leaves and forest floor debris in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on July 30, 2025. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto) -
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Daily Life In Edmonton
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A birch bolete (Leccinum scabrum) partially eaten by snails camouflaged among leaves and forest floor debris in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on July 30, 2025. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto) -
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Daily Life In Edmonton
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A birch bolete (Leccinum scabrum) partially eaten by snails camouflaged among leaves and forest floor debris in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on July 30, 2025. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto) -
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Daily Life In Edmonton
EDMONTON, CANADA - JULY 30:
A birch bolete (Leccinum scabrum) partially eaten by snails camouflaged among leaves and forest floor debris in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on July 30, 2025. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto) -
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Daily Life In Edmonton
EDMONTON, CANADA - JULY 30:
A birch bolete (Leccinum scabrum) partially eaten by snails camouflaged among leaves and forest floor debris in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on July 30, 2025. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto) -
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FEATURE - Bunte Schneckenhäuser
July 13, 2016 - Bogor, West Java, Indonesia - In the market of Anyar, Bogor, Indonesia. Sea snail or the Hermit crabs painted with colors to look beautiful, the three marine snail tail is sold at Idr 10 thousand (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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Inventur: Das alljährliche Messen und Wägen der Tiere im London Zoo
MANDATORY CREDIT: ZSL London Zoo/REX Shutterstock. Only for use in story about annual weigh-in records animals? vital statistics at ZSL London Zoo. No stock, books, advertising or merchandising without photographer's permission.
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Extinct-in-the-wild Partula snails are measured en masse by keeper Sam Aberdeen
Annual weigh-in records animals? vital statistics at ZSL London Zoo, London, Britain - 26 Aug 2015
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Two-month old penguin chicks and 80-year-old tortoises were just some of the huge variety of animals to have their vital statistics recorded at today's weigh in at ZSL London Zoo. (26 Aug 2015)
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London Pet Show 2015 at Excel, Britain - 09 May 2015
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Shelley and Marge the Giant African Land Snails
London Pet Show 2015 at Excel, Britain - 09 May 2015
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Tiny critically endangered partula gibba snails bred at Marwell Zoo, Hampshire, Britain - 29 Jan 2012
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Solent News / Rex Features (1584865c)
Partula Gibba snails on a pencil
Tiny critically endangered partula gibba snails bred at Marwell Zoo, Hampshire, Britain - 29 Jan 2012
These critically endangered snails are so small they can crawl along the edge of this 50 pence coin. British conservationists are battling to save the Partula gibba snails, which measure little bigger than a pin head at birth. They are extinct in the wild and so endangered in captivity that a third of the world's population can be found in just one room at Marwell Zoo in Hampshire. The snails are extinct in the wild after a botched farming experiment wiped out its number in its native Pacific Islands. The predatory rosy wolfsnail was introduced to the islands in 1974 in a bid to control land snail numbers, but instead it fed on tree snails. Now there are just 306 Partula gibba left in the world with 123 of those residing at Marwell. This year, conservationists plan release some back into the wild in the hope they will re-populate. Snail keeper Geoff Read said: "I'm looking at a species dying in front of me and to think these snails could become extinct in my lifetime is incredibly sad".
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Tiny critically endangered partula gibba snails bred at Marwell Zoo, Hampshire, Britain - 29 Jan 2012
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Solent News / Rex Features (1584865a)
Partula Gibba snails on a pencil
Tiny critically endangered partula gibba snails bred at Marwell Zoo, Hampshire, Britain - 29 Jan 2012
These critically endangered snails are so small they can crawl along the edge of this 50 pence coin. British conservationists are battling to save the Partula gibba snails, which measure little bigger than a pin head at birth. They are extinct in the wild and so endangered in captivity that a third of the world's population can be found in just one room at Marwell Zoo in Hampshire. The snails are extinct in the wild after a botched farming experiment wiped out its number in its native Pacific Islands. The predatory rosy wolfsnail was introduced to the islands in 1974 in a bid to control land snail numbers, but instead it fed on tree snails. Now there are just 306 Partula gibba left in the world with 123 of those residing at Marwell. This year, conservationists plan release some back into the wild in the hope they will re-populate. Snail keeper Geoff Read said: "I'm looking at a species dying in front of me and to think these snails could become extinct in my lifetime is incredibly sad".
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Tiny critically endangered partula gibba snails bred at Marwell Zoo, Hampshire, Britain - 29 Jan 2012
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Solent News / Rex Features (1584865b)
Partula Gibba snails on a 50p piece
Tiny critically endangered partula gibba snails bred at Marwell Zoo, Hampshire, Britain - 29 Jan 2012
These critically endangered snails are so small they can crawl along the edge of this 50 pence coin. British conservationists are battling to save the Partula gibba snails, which measure little bigger than a pin head at birth. They are extinct in the wild and so endangered in captivity that a third of the world's population can be found in just one room at Marwell Zoo in Hampshire. The snails are extinct in the wild after a botched farming experiment wiped out its number in its native Pacific Islands. The predatory rosy wolfsnail was introduced to the islands in 1974 in a bid to control land snail numbers, but instead it fed on tree snails. Now there are just 306 Partula gibba left in the world with 123 of those residing at Marwell. This year, conservationists plan release some back into the wild in the hope they will re-populate. Snail keeper Geoff Read said: "I'm looking at a species dying in front of me and to think these snails could become extinct in my lifetime is incredibly sad".
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CELEB TWITTER PICTURES
22.SEPT.2011
BRITISH SINGER JESSIE J POSTED SOME PICTURES ON HER TWITTER PAGE OF HER ENJOYING SOME SNAIL'S FOR LUNCH WHILE STAYING AT HER HOTEL IN PARIS.
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CELEB TWITTER PICTURES
22.SEPT.2011
BRITISH SINGER JESSIE J POSTED SOME PICTURES ON HER TWITTER PAGE OF HER ENJOYING SOME SNAIL'S FOR LUNCH WHILE STAYING AT HER HOTEL IN PARIS.
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CELEB TWITTER PICTURES
22.SEPT.2011
BRITISH SINGER JESSIE J POSTED SOME PICTURES ON HER TWITTER PAGE OF HER ENJOYING SOME SNAIL'S FOR LUNCH WHILE STAYING AT HER HOTEL IN PARIS.
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CELEB TWITTER PICTURES
22.SEPT.2011
BRITISH SINGER JESSIE J POSTED SOME PICTURES ON HER TWITTER PAGE OF HER ENJOYING SOME SNAIL'S FOR LUNCH WHILE STAYING AT HER HOTEL IN PARIS.
BYLINE MUST READ : SUPPLIED BY XPOSUREPHOTOS.COM
*GERMAN CLIENTS, PLEASE CALL TO AGREE FEE PRIOR TO PUBLICATION*
*UK CLIENTS MUST CALL PRIOR TO TV OR ONLINE USAGE PLEASE TELEPHONE 020 7377 2770 & +1 310 562 7073* (FOTO: DUKAS/XPOSURE)
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Snail Love Sighting
29th July 2008: Here two snails enjoying each others company in a Hampshire garden.
Credit: GoffPhotos.com Ref: KGC-04
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