Researchers Find New Pathway For Age-Related Macular Degeneration

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Researchers Find New Pathway For Age-Related Macular Degeneration

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Researchers at Tufts Medical Center and collaborators discovered a new biological pathway for advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) that implicates a role of the hepatic lipase gene, LIP

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