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An eye to treating blindness

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Work on stem cells is one of the hottest research areas in biology. But are such studies of any therapeutic value? Fortunately, yes, as is evident from successes in treating blindness.

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Figure 1: Help from one eye to its neighbouring eye.

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  1. Elena Ezhkova and Elaine Fuchs are at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10065, USA. fuchslb@rockefeller.edu ,

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Ezhkova, E., Fuchs, E. An eye to treating blindness. Nature 466, 567–568 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/466567a

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