Biologists Grew a Human Retina in a Dish

Biologists Grew a Human Retina in a Dish

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Scientists at Johns Hopkins University replicated a human retina in a dish to explore how the eye’s color-detecting cells develop. Their findings could help premature babies better develop eyesight, and the elderly keep theirs for longer.

If you’re imagining a whole eyeball lolling around in a wet dish, it wasn’t quite that gory; without a microscope, it looked like a tiny translucent lump of goo.

Biologists Grew a Human Retina in a Dish

Oct 11, 2018, 6:32pm UTC
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/neg5vg/biologists-grew-a-human-retina-in-a-dish > Scientists at Johns Hopkins University replicated a human retina in a dish to explore how the eye’s color-detecting cells develop. Their findings could help premature babies better develop eyesight, and the elderly keep theirs for longer. > If you’re imagining a whole eyeball lolling around in a wet dish, it wasn’t quite that gory; without a microscope, it looked like a tiny translucent lump of goo.