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Patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) for the study and treatment of retinal degenerative diseases.
Progress in retinal and eye research - 1 Jan 2015
Wiley Luke A, Burnight Erin R, Songstad Allison E, Drack Arlene V, Mullins Robert F, Stone Edwin M, Tucker Budd A
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Vision is the sense that we use to navigate the world around us. Thus it is not surprising that blindness is one of people's most feared maladies. Heritable diseases of the retina, such as age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa, are the leading cause of blindness in the developed world, collectively affecting as many as one-third of all people over the age of 75, to some degree. For decades,...
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