Retinas in a Dish Peek into Inherited Retinal Degeneration.

Duong, Thu T; Vasireddy, Vidyullatha; Mills, Jason A; Bennett, Jean · Cell Stem Cell · 2016

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Human retinal degeneration can cause blindness, and the lack of relevant model systems has made identifying underlying mechanisms challenging. Parfitt et al. (2016) generate three-dimensional retinal tissue from patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells to identify how CEP290 mutations cause retinal degeneration, and show an antisense approach can correct disease-associated phenotypes.

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