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A Stem-Cell Therapy for Blindness Thursday, June 18, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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An experimental therapy using human embryonic stem cells to treat degenerative eye diseases has proved safe and effective in animal studies, and may begin early human trials in the next few months if it receives approval from the Food and Drug Administration. If granted approval, the therapy will be the second embryonic-stem-cell-based treatment to progress to human trials, and it will provide a test case for further applications of stem cells. (source: technologyreview.com)
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