Sloppy shipping of human retina leads researchers to discover new treatment path for eye disease
Saturday, May 5, 2012 - 09:30
in Health & Medicine
Sloppy shipping of a donated human retina to a 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.
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