A layer of “dark cells” in the retina that is responsible for maintaining the health of the light-sensing cells in our eyes has been imaged in a living retina for the first time.

The ability to see this nearly invisible layer could help doctors identify the onset of many diseases of the eye long before a patient notices symptoms. The findings are reported in Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science.

“Our goal is to figure out why macular degeneration, one of the most prevalent eye diseases, actually happens,” says David Williams, director of the Center for Visual Science and professor in the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester. “Macular degeneration affects one in 10 people over the age of 65, and as the average age of the U.S. population continues to increase, it is only going to get more and more common. We know these dark retinal cells are compromised by macular degeneration, and now that we can image them in the living eye, we might be able to detect the disease at a much earlier stage.”

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