Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of improving vision. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of a nucleic acid molecule to activate (hyperpolarize) horizontal cells in the mesopic and photopic illumination ranges and the use of said nucleic acid molecule to improve visual function, for example following degeneration or loss of the ‘macula’.

Abstract: The present description relates to a method and a device for providing anyons that may be used for topological quantum computation. The method comprises the steps of providing a magnetic material containing at least one magnetic texture providing a superconductor containing at least one vortex; creating at least one magnetic texture-vortex pair by coupling the magnetic material to the superconductor, wherein each magnetic texture-vortex pair binds an anyon being localized at the vortex of the respective magnetic texture-vortex pair in the superconductor.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of gene therapy vectors to improve vision by introducing into healthy rod photoreceptor cells of a patient suffering from cone photoreceptor dysfunction and/or degeneration a nucleic acid encoding a gene product that is light-sensitive and/or that modulates endogenous light-sensitive signalling in a photoreceptor cell, such that the range of light intensities to which the rod photoreceptor responds is extended and/or the speed at which the rod photoreceptor responds to light is increased

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of gene therapy vectors to improve vision by introducing into healthy rod photoreceptor cells of a patient suffering from cone photoreceptor dysfunction and/or degeneration a nucleic acid encoding a gene product that is light-sensitive and/or that modulates endogenous light-sensitive signaling in a photoreceptor cell, such that the range of light intensities to which the rod photoreceptor responds is extended and/or the speed at which the rod photoreceptor responds to light is increased.