Base editing corrected a mutation that causes macular degeneration, highlighting the potential of gene therapy to treat ...
Researchers successfully pulled off the first eye stem cell transplants to help heal cornea damage, and the results speak for ...
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A new study suggests that never-seen-before stem cells in the human retina can restore vision in mice with a common eye ...
In vertebrate retinas, specialized photoreceptors responsible for color vision (cone cells) arrange themselves in patterns ...
But a new clinical trial has repaired this damage in patients thanks to a transplant of stem cells from their healthy eyes. The cornea is the outer layer of the eye, which focuses light towards ...
In this new process, stem cells taken from a person's healthy eye can be used to rebuild the cornea in their damaged eye, researchers reported March 4 in the journal Nature Communications. The ...