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Official Twitter account of the National Eye Institute (NEI) at NIH. NEI is a U.S. federal government agency dedicated to eye health and vision research.
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From Universität Augsburg (Germany): macrophages inside the eye (mouse study) may develop in the vitreous during embryonic development, rather than developing in the blood & moving to the eye later in life. Peter Wieghofer @BMC Journal of Neuroinflammation: bit.ly/3XfMZpO
From Argonne National Lab: a new code package to show radar meteorology data in a colorblind-friendly manner. American Meteorological Society paper: bit.ly/3AuWtVh
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