Sloppy Shipping of Human Retina Leads Researchers to Discover New Treatment Path for Eye Disease
Friday, May 4, 2012 - 09:00
in Health & Medicine
Sloppy shipping of a donated human retina to an Indiana University researcher studying a leading cause of vision loss has inadvertently helped uncover a previously undetected mechanism causing the disease. The discovery has led researchers to urge review of how millions of dollars are spent investigating the cause of a type of age-related macular degeneration called choroidal neovascularization.