Lab-Grown Retinal Cells: Hope for Eye Therapies
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have successfully used induced pluripotent stem cells to grow retinal endothelial cells. These cells were shown to regenerate blood vessels in mouse models, offering a potential new pathway for treating retinal vascular diseases.
Why it matters
This breakthrough provides a new method for modeling eye diseases and developing targeted therapies for vision loss, which currently affects millions.
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to grow specialized blood vessel cells critical to retinal health for the first time.
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