Noted: While others have also developed systems to study the human retina in the lab, the current study extends these capabilities, according to coauthor David Gamm, director of the McPherson Eye Research Institute and an associate professor of ophthalmology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. ?Outer segments, which are the business end of photoreceptors, have not been previously shown to form from scratch in culture. This study is important as it demonstrated the extent to which we can study the retina in a culture dish,? said Gamm.
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