[Adult] Stem cells used to help cure sight loss

By Danny Rose
AAP
May 28, 2009

COATING a common contact lens with stem cells could help restore a person's sight, Australian scientists have found.University of New South Wales medical researchers used the technique to treat the damaged corneas of three patients, all of whose vision improved within weeks of the groundbreaking procedure.

The results are published in the journal Transplant, indicating a further unique element of the world-first trial. the rest