Retinal self-organization: a model of retinal ganglion cells and starburst amacrine cells mosaic formation

 Researchers from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and the University of Surrey have just published a new article where they presented realistic simulations of retinal cell self-organization built using BioDynaMo and biological data from in vitro experiments and from the literature.

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