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Researchers Grow Eye Cells From Skin Cells

Featured on: Voice of America
Publication date: Aug 25, 2009

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin have grown light-sensing retinal eye cells from human skin cells. It is a breakthrough that could lead to treatments for degenerative eye diseases such as macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa caused by genetic disorders that cause the cells of the retina die and vision is gradually lost.

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