Blind mice see again after cell transplants: Research could lead to new treatments of human eye diseases

Source: Reuters
Posted: 6:51 a.m. AKT Nov 8, 2006

Summary:

British and American scientists have restored vision in blind mice by transplanting light-sensitive cells into their eyes in a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments of human eye diseases. But instead of using stem cells, which could form into any cell type, the scientists transplanted cells that had reached a later stage of development towards becoming photoreceptor cells.