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Illustration of a blood cell turning into an induced pluripotent stem cell and then an RPE cell.

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Illustration of a blood cell turning into an induced pluripotent stem cell and then an RPE cell.

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The researchers will take a patient’s own blood cells, and in a lab, convert them into iPS cells capable of becoming any type of cell in the body. The iPS cells are then programmed to become retinal pigment epithelial cells, the type of cell that dies early in the geographic atrophy form of AMD.

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Illustration of a blood cell turning into an induced pluripotent stem cell and then an RPE cell.
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Illustration of a blood cell turning into an induced pluripotent stem cell and then an RPE cell.