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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Lab Grown Retinal Cells Implanted Into Blind Mice – And They Work

Lab Grown Retinal Cells Implanted Into Blind Mice – And They Work | Singularity Hub: "What if we could reverse degenerative forms of blindness with but an injection of new cells? Stem cell therapies—still promising, if not particularly speedy in their development—may someday do just that. A recent paper in the journal Nature Biotechnology documents the successful implantation of photoreceptors, grown from embryonic stem cells, into the retinas of night-blind mice."

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