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With the help of funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG), a new Centre for Electron Microscopy is being established at the Institute of Physics. The aim is to create an organisational infrastructure that enables effective use of cutting-edge equipment by researchers at other institutes within the university as well as by external research institutes.

A team led by the Augsburg cell biologist and anatomist Prof Peter Wieghofer has shown that macrophages develop in the vitreous body of the eye as early as the embryonic stage. Up until now, it was assumed that they regularly regenerate from blood cells during the course of life.

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