dilluns, 14 de juliol del 2014

Regrowing corneas: It's all about finding the stem cells




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By Nancy Fliesler


Severe burns, chemical injury and certain diseases can cause blindness by clouding the eyes' corneas and killing off a precious population of stem cells that help maintain them. In the past, doctors have tried to regrow corneal tissue by transplanting cells from limbal tissue–found at the border between the cornea and the white of the eye. But they didn't know whether the tissue contained enough of the active ingredient: limbal stem cells.



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