New Strategy Found for Preventing Macular Degeneration

Fixing problems with cholesterol metabolism might help slow or prevent a common cause of age-related vision loss, a new WashU Medicine study in mice has shown. Pictured are color-stained retinal epithelial cells from a mouse eye, the first cells to die as age-related macular degeneration progresses. (Photo courtesy of Tim Lee/WashU Medicine)
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