British scientists restored sight to the mice, that suffer from the dystrophia of yellow spot (AMD) dependent on age. For this they used fundamentally new technology with the use of stem cells. AMD - one of the main reasons, which lead to blindness, notes the newspaper Sun.
Doctor Robert maklaren from university college to London notes: this investigation for the first time showed that a similar transplantation of cells is completely possible. Now we are assured: this is - main way for further studies and restoring the sight to thousands of those, who it lost .
The pigment epithelium of retina plays the significant role for our sight, forming the external barrier of retina and supporting the function of the cells, which assume light. The damage of pigment epithelium is present in many illnesses of retina, including the dystrophia of yellow spot dependent on age, which, for example, in THE USA suffer more than 1,75 million people.
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