Retinal organoids (IMAGE)

Heidelberg University

Retinal organoids

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Side by side comparison of the emerging retina in the fish embryo and in the retinal organoid grown in a Petri dish. Different colours mark the optic vesicle with retinal progenitor cells (magenta – left picture, red – middle picture), progenitors of the retinal pigmented epithelium and forebrain (cyan – middle picture) and emerging retinal cell types (green – right picture).

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Adapted from Zilova, Weinhardt, et al., eLife 2021, 10:e66998, CC BY 4.0

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