Macular degeneration insight identifies promising drugs to prevent vision loss

Monday, July 18, 2016 - 19:31 in Health & Medicine

In a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a University of Wisconsin—Madison research team pinpoints how immune abnormalities beneath the retina result in macular degeneration, a common condition that often causes blindness. Aparna Lakkaraju, an assistant professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, focused on two protective mechanisms that […]

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