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Clear view of the lens

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The lens of your eye sacrifices the ability to feed itself for clear vision. Eleanor Lawrence discovers how this noble device doesn't starve.

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  1. Shestopalov, V.I. & Bassnett, S. Expression of autofluorescent proteins reveals a novel protein permeable pathway between cells in the lens core. Journal of Cell Science 113, 1913 - 1921 2000.

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Lawrence, E. Clear view of the lens. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000525-2

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