{"id":34862,"date":"2017-02-25T02:23:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T10:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/scientists-may-have-identified-cell-in-eye-that-causes-nearsightedness"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:11:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:11:42","slug":"scientists-may-have-identified-cell-in-eye-that-causes-nearsightedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/scientists-may-have-identified-cell-in-eye-that-causes-nearsightedness","title":{"rendered":"Scientists may have identified cell in eye that causes nearsightedness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-may-have-identified-cell-in-eye-that-causes-nearsightedness.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, Feb. 21, 2017 \u2014 Whether you\u2019re nearsighted or not might come down to one particular type of cell in your retina, a new mouse study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Northwestern University\u2019s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago report that this cell is highly sensitive to light and controls how the eye develops.<\/p>\n<p>If it malfunctions and tells the eye to grow for too long, images don\u2019t get focused in the retina as they should be, the researchers said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Health_News\/2017\/02\/21\/Scientists-may-have-identified-cell-in-eye-that-causes-nearsightedness\/8181487729995\/\">http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Health_News\/2017\/02\/21\/Scientists-may-hav...487729995\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUESDAY, Feb. 21, 2017 \u2014 Whether you\u2019re nearsighted or not might come down to one particular type of cell in your retina, a new mouse study suggests. Researchers from Northwestern University\u2019s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago report that this cell is highly sensitive to light and controls how the eye develops. If it malfunctions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58602,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34862\/revisions\/58602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}