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Diabetic retinopathy, a common complication of diabetes, is a major cause of blindness in adults. A new study found that visual function in diabetic mice was significantly improved after treatment with a single dose of visual chromophore 9-cis-retinal, a vitamin A analog that can form a visual pigment in the retina cells, thereby producing a light sensitive element of the retina. Read more