retinopathy of prematurity (Leber congenital amaurosis)
Sankara Nethralaya takes a huge forward step in treating ‘irreversible blindness’
Scientists have successfully grown stem cells isolated from cadaveric human eyes in the lab. Hema Vijay explains that one day, a patient’s own stem cells from the eye could be used as a source of donor cells to cure retinal blindness. It is a huge step forward in the challenging path leading up to the […]