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in Chinese of Bravo, buddy! Ingeniously framed—what a clever angle. Using a humble snail to illuminate possibilities in human eye regeneration is both bold and inspiring. As Henry John Klassen (MD-PhD, UCI Professor of eye stem cells) put it, this discovery may not yield immediate cures, but it shines as a “beacon of light” for what could be—a niche to be explored for future clinical revelation, perhaps akin to the C. elegans model pioneered by Nobel Laureate Sidney Brenner for [Golden apple snails (middle) have camera-like eyes similar to humans (top). A camera-like eye has a single chamber, a lens, cornea and light-gathering cells in a retina at the back of the eye. The similarity could make snails a good organism for studying eye development and regeneration. The golden apple snail can regrow its eyes, a trick that might one day help heal people’s eye injuries and diseases. Currently, much eye research is done with fruit flies (bottom), which have compound eyes. Both snails and fruit flies have many of the same genes that govern eye development in humans.].
