Stem Cells curing blindness

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Submission + - Stem Cells curing blindness

Submitted by mcgrew on Friday June 25, 2010 @09:46AM

mcgrew writes: The AP (via Yahoo) is reporting that the Italians can now cure blindness caused by chemical burns using the patient's own stem cells. Previously, this kind of injury needed either a corneal transplant or stem cells from someone else, both of which are plagued by problems with tisue rejection.

Unfortunately, this only works for damaged corneas — so far.

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