http://syndicatemizzou.org/articles Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:01:00 GMT Connecting you with the University of Missouri’s innovative research and creative activity http://syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/98 Imagine waking to a bright, sunny day, not really being able to see. Some people go their whole lives without witnessing that vivid red ball from their youth or the facial features of a loved one. Kristina Narfstrom, a veterinary ophthalmologist at the University of Missouri, is doing research that has promise to provide some light at the end of the tunnel. Narfstrom began her veterinary medical career in her native Sweden, where she taught at the veterinary school for more than 20 years. She seeks solutions for retinal diseases in the outer retina, but more specifically in the photoreceptor (visual) cells, the rods and the cones. She is focused on diseases that cause complete blindness. Her subjects involve mainly cats and dogs, which suffer from many of the same ailments in the eye as humans. Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/98 (Sean Powers)