A receptor usually found on immune cells implicated in allergy turns out to be a diagnostic marker and promising treatment target for a degenerative eye disease. Curiously, its role in the eye seems to be unrelated to inflammation.
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Grant, M. New light on allergy receptor. Nature 460, 182–183 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/460182a
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