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LOS ANGELES - Dozens of people who were blinded or otherwise suffered severe eye damage when they were splashed with caustic chemicals had their sight restored with transplants of their own stem cells — a stunning success for the burgeoning cell-therapy field, Italian researchers reported Wednesday.
Stem cells restore sight to those blinded by burns - Health care- msnbc.com
Good news for people with eye damage. Also has implications for other regenerative therapies using stem cells, and the article mentions that it's been useful for people with certain kinds of cancer. I really think that most of the major medical breakthroughs in the next couple of decades are going to come from stem cell research.