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Are you affected by inherited sight loss? We are here to help. Retina UK is a national charity. We offer information and support to people affected by inherited sight loss to enable them to lead better lives today and fund medical research to accelerate the search for treatments for the future.
We regularly make applications for grants to fund our information and support projects and have recently been successful in securing £12,000 from The National Lottery Community Fund.
Cataracts occur fairly frequently and at a relatively early age within the Retina UK community of people with inherited retinal conditions. A question that comes up over and over again is whether or not to have cataract surgery.
There are about 125 million rod and cone cells within the retina that act as the eye's light receptors.
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Angus was part of #TeamRetinaUK in 2021 and is running again in 2024. In the run-up to the 2021 race, this is what he had to say:
Mini-retinas are essentially mini eyeballs in a dish. They contain all of the cell types in the human retina and we can perform many experiments on these to figure out the missing pieces in the puzzle.
