Grow your own eye.

• Autores: Yoshiki Sasai
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 307, Nº. 5, 2012, págs. 44-49
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The author, a researcher from the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, discusses growing organs outside the body as replacements for damaged organs, and describes growing cortical tissue and a pituitary gland from stem cells. Artificially grown eyeballs, embryonic development, and culture solutions that allowed organs to develop in three dimensions are discussed. The development of the optic cup, research on pluripotent stem cells, and retinal tissue are mentioned, as well as retinal degeneration diseases that could be treated with the stem cell growth technique.