Saturday, June 6, 2009

Sight for Sore Eyes

If this holds up it'll be a phenomenal discovery for blind people around the world.



From Gizmodo...
Here's something that people with poor or no vision will be excited about: three patients had their sight restored in less than a month by contact lenses cultured with stem cells.

All three patients were blind in one eye. The researchers extracted stem cells from their working eyes, cultured them in contact lenses for 10 days, and gave them to the patients. Within 10 to 14 days of use, the stem cells began recolonizing and repairing the cornea.

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