eLife (Oct 2024)

Growing microglia in the lab

Jonathan M Levenson,
Hio Tong Kam,
Dong Feng Chen

Affiliations

Jonathan M Levenson: ORCiD; FireCyte Therapeutics, Inc, Boston, United States
Hio Tong Kam: ORCiD; Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
Dong Feng Chen: ORCiD; Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.103535
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13

Abstract

Transplanting microglia derived from human stem cells into mice reveals new possibilities for treating neurodegenerative eye diseases.

Published in eLife

ISSN: 2050-084X (Online)
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine; Science: Biology (General)
Website: https://elifesciences.org

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