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The London Project to Cure AMD aims to preserve and restore vision in dry AMD using a surgical approach:
transplanting retinal pigment epithelial cells cultured from stem cells in a laboratory. Opthalmic surgeon
Lyndon Da Cruz of Moorfields talks to Hugh Breakspear about this exciting new research.
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Hugh Breakspear |
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References
Da Cruz L, Chen FK, Ahmado A, Greenwood J, Coffey P
RPE transplantation and its role in retinal disease
Prog Retin Eye Res 2007; 26(6): 598-635.
Abstract
Vugler A, Lawrence J, Walsh J et al
Embryonic stem cells and retinal repair
Mech Dev 2007; 124(11-12): 807-29.
Abstract
