Vision Research
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Vitamin A-related signals and thyroid hormones found to steer foveola development in lab-grown human retinas
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Johns Hopkins University researchers report that a vitamin A-derived molecule and thyroid hormones help shape the fetal development of the foveola—the small central retinal region responsible for the sharpest human vision—by guiding how cone cells are specified and later change identity.