Russian Researchers-Embryo Stem Cells Can Repair Retina
Related News: Stem Cells and BlindnessI have personally been waiting for more news about research in this field and, even if it has been a loooong wait ... russian researchers are reporting about an embryonic stem cell treatment that has been used to repair damaged retinas in rabbits. Further, they are suggesting that this same treatment could be used one day to treat blindness in humans. This made my day, for very personal reasons ....
They transplanted cultivated cells into rabbit retinas damaged by a laser, placing them into several sections of burnt tissue....
Microscope study revealed that the cells remained vital for 30 days, located themselves in external and internal layers of damaged retinas and stimulated healing.
The report comes just a few months after a group of American researchers from Advanced Cell Technology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Chicago reported deriving retinal cells from embryonic stem cells.
Russian researchers participating in the new study were from the Helmholtz Moscow Research Institute of Diseases of the Eye, the Koltsov Institute of Developmental Biology RAS and the Institute of Gene Biology RAS.
Source - betterhumans.com
Posted on March 18, 2005 11:35 PM