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Guilherme Testa Silva

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Erkennen was die Welt Im Innersten zusammenhält.

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Work by Morgan Chevalier, Firas Fadel, Timea Majer, Daniel Magda, Ferenc Kilin, Lili Gerendás, and in collaboration with the labs of Zoltan Z Nagy, Szabo Arnold, and Botond Roska.

30.08.2025 08:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#ProteinEngineering #TRPChannels #SyntheticBiology #VisionRestoration #Retina #GeneTherapy

30.08.2025 08:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

tl;dr: We trimmed human TRPV1 so it wakes up at ~41°C. Brief near‑IR “warm‑pulses” made ganglion cells in blind human retina explants fire graded spikes—no opsins, no nanoparticles, just AAV + human protein. Early‑stage, clean thermal control.

30.08.2025 08:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Engineering infrared light detection in blind human retina using ultrasensitive human TRPV1 channels Engineering infrared light sensitivity in the blind human retina could restore visual function in patients with regional retinal degeneration. However…

Just published:Engineering infrared light detection in blind human retina using ultrasensitive human TRPV1 channels.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

30.08.2025 08:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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27.02.2025 12:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Engineering Infrared Light Detection in Blind Human Retina Using Ultrasensitive Human TRPV1 Channels Engineering infrared light sensitivity in the blind human retina could restore visual function in patients with regional retinal degeneration. However, current approaches are complex and contain non-h...

Hello Blue Sky, our first preprint on vision restoration is online:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

11.01.2025 16:59 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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