Mice are Trained with iPads (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Mice are Trained with iPads

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Diagram of a setup in which mice were trained to respond to patterns on iPads instead of much brighter LEDs. After the trained mice went blind from an inherited retinal disease, they were treated with a gene therapy that restored sufficient sight for them to respond to patterns on the iPads almost as well as before they went blind.

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John Flannery and Ehud Isacoff, UC Berkeley

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