Blind mice can see again, after researchers transplanted developing cells into their eyes and found they could reform the entire light-sensitive layer of the retina.
Study was led by Dr. Mandeep Singh, an eye surgeon from the National University Hospital of Singapore and a clinician-scientist with the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI), while he was a Ph.D. student with Professor Robert MacLaren at the University of Oxford, U.K.
The researchers worked with mice that were blind due to complete loss of the light-sensing photoreceptor cells in their retinas. This is the most relevant mouse model for treating patients who are blind from retinitis pigmentosa.
The article can be found at: Singh M et al. (2013) Reversal of end-stage retinal degeneration and restoration of visual function by photoreceptor transplantation.
Source: http://www.asianscientist.com/in-the-lab/healing-blind-mice-2013/
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