Source: Guardian Unlimited - UK
Date: March 15, 2007
Summary:
People with a rare genetic condition causing them to have no irises, called aniridia, are having their sight improved thanks to stem cell therapy being pioneered in a British hospital. Doctors treat the condition by transplanting into their eyes cells grown from those of dead donors. The stem cell transplants trigger production of new cells in the patients, leading to the hope that such techniques could help grow even hearts and livers.
