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RETINAL CELLS TRANSPLANTED INTO BLIND MICE. ?Treatment was given to mice engineered to mimic a form?

By Glenn Reynolds

RETINAL CELLS TRANSPLANTED INTO BLIND MICE. “Treatment was given to mice engineered to mimic a form of childhood blindness called Leber’s congenital amaurosis. The team injected 200,000 isolated cells into each eye, in a space between the layer of light-sensitive cells ? engineered to be damaged in the recipient mice ? at the rear of the retina and a supporting epithelial cell layer above. Within 21 days, the new cells settled into the photoreceptor layer and grew into rods and cones.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 23, 2010 (boomark / email).