Stem Cells Develop into Color-Sensing Cells (VIDEO)
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Biologists at Johns Hopkins University grew human retina tissue from scratch to determine how cells that allow people to see in color are made.
The work, published in the journal Science, lays the foundation to develop therapies for eye diseases such as color blindness and macular degeneration. It also establishes lab-created "organoids" as a model to study human development on a cellular level.
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Len Turner and Dave Schmelick/JHU
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