BBC: Cell transplants restore sight

[Kythereia]

Link here for the article.

Cell transplants have successfully restored vision to mice which had lost their sight, leading to hopes people could benefit in the same way.

UK scientists treated animals which had eye damage similar to that seen in many human eye diseases.

They were able to help them see again by transplanting immature retinal stem cells into their eyes.

Awesome.

[mnemosyne]

Wow, that’s really cool! It’s unfortunate that to try to do the same for humans would require 2nd trimester foetus stem cells… hopefully a path using other cells could be found for the same results.