Untapping the potential of human retinal pigmented epithelial cells.
The innate capacity of adult somatic cells has many potential applications in regenerative medicine. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Salero et al. (2012) describe an adult retinal stem cell population capable of generating neural and mesenchymal cell lineages.
Ocular Biology and Therapeutics, UCL-Institute of Ophthalmology, London EC1V 9EL, UK. p.coffey@ucl.ac.uk
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