Nature communications
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Nature communications · Mar 2019
Publisher Correction: Room temperature CO2 reduction to solid carbon species on liquid metals featuring atomically thin ceria interfaces.
The original version of this Article contained errors in the author affiliations. Affiliation 1 incorrectly read 'School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW 2031, Australia' and affiliation 4 incorrectly read 'School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia.' This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.
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Nature communications · Mar 2019
Restoration of high-sensitivity and adapting vision with a cone opsin.
Inherited and age-related retinal degenerative diseases cause progressive loss of rod and cone photoreceptors, leading to blindness, but spare downstream retinal neurons, which can be targeted for optogenetic therapy. However, optogenetic approaches have been limited by either low light sensitivity or slow kinetics, and lack adaptation to changes in ambient light, and not been shown to restore object vision. ⋯ By contrast, rhodopsin, which is similar in sensitivity but slower in light response and has greater rundown, fails these tests. Thus, MW-opsin provides the speed, sensitivity and adaptation needed to restore patterned vision.