Hidden 'recycling system' helps keep vision cells healthy

For decades, scientists believed that photoreceptors successful the retina relied chiefly connected neighboring enactment cells, known arsenic the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), to region waste. While the RPE is inactive liable for clearing distant the worn-out tips of photoreceptors each day, caller findings from the University of Oklahoma uncover that photoreceptors besides execute overmuch of their ain interior housekeeping. The survey is published successful Cell Death & Disease.