Retinal Cell Transplant Cure Blind Mice

Photoreceptor loss is a common cause for blindness in human being. Currently, treatments available are only able to either prevent the disease from happening or delay its progress. Fortunately, a recent success in stem cell transplant could prove as a solution in curing the disease. Researchers from the Institute of Ophthalmology and Child Health (University College London) and Moorfield's Eye Hospital in London managed to successfully restore vision to mice suffering from photoreceptor loss through retinal cell transplant.

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