UBC

A University of British Columbia study identifies an important molecular change that occurs in the brain when we learn and remember, giving researchers a better understanding of the tools that brains use and providing insight into how the processes become disrupted in neurological diseases such as Alzheimer disease and Huntington disease.

For physicians of my generation, many additional chapters in our medical careers have been written since chapter one, medical school. That opening chapter is somewhat of a fading vision. Not the knowledge part, thank goodness, but the circumstances under which that information was acquired and retained.

University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health scientists have developed a drug that appears to restore normal vision in mice afflicted with aniridia, a condition that severely limits the vision of about 5000 people in North America. The development of this potential cure for a rare eye disease shows for the first time that a drug can repair a birth defect.