China-US team uses stem cells in cataract treatment
By Paul Welitzkin in New York | China Daily | Updated: 2016-03-15 07:50
Researchers in China and the United States have developed a new cataract treatment with stem cells that has restored vision in infants in a trial and may eventually be used in adults.
The treatment - by doctors and staff members at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Sichuan and Sun Yat-sen universities in China - was published in the March 9 edition of the scientific journal Nature.
A cataract is a clouding of the normally clear lens of an eye. Typical cataract surgery involves the removal of the cloudy lens and the insertion of an artificial one.
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