Research conducted by recent Oakland University graduate Mathew Seidel through OU’s Eye Research Institute has been published in Scientific Reports, a Nature Portfolio journal.
The study examines changes in a type of lipid, or fat, found in cell membranes (sphingomyelin), as well as an enzyme that breaks down the fat (sphingomyelinase), in human eyes affected by glaucoma. Affecting about 80 million people worldwide, glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that can cause vision loss and blindness.
Seidel Researchers in Oakland University’s Department of Biological Sciences, in collaboration with scientists from Duke University Marine Lab, the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez and other institutions, have assembled the first high-quality genome of the Caribbean long-spined sea urchin, Diadema antillarum. Several OU students also co-authored the study, including Kenneth Hilkert, Stephanie Castro-Marquez and Walter Wolfsberger.
The study, published in the journal Genes, provides an important new resource
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Recent OU graduate’s glaucoma research published in Nature Portfolio journal
OU researchers develop first high-quality genome for Caribbean long-spined sea urchin
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