Human stem cells help blinded rats (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Human embryonic stem cells can partly restore vision in blinded rats, and may offer a source of transplants for people with certain eye diseases, researchers at a U.S. company reported on Thursday. The finding, published in the journal Cloning and Stem Cells, might offer a way to use stem cells that now exist in laboratories, the researchers said. "We have developed a technology that we hope can be used to treat degenerative eye diseases such as macular degeneration," said ...