Stem Cells Restore Sight in Blind Eye

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Stem Cells Restore Sight in Blind Eye

 

A man who was partially blinded after intervening in a fight has had his

vision restored by a new stem-cell therapy.

 

Russell Turnbull, 38, lost most of the sight from his right eye in 1994

when he was sprayed in the face with ammonia while trying to break up an

altercation on a bus in Newcastle upon Tyne. The chemical burnt his

cornea,

leaving him with cloudy vision, pain on every blink and extreme

sensitivity to

light.

 

He has now become one of the first people to benefit from a treatment

developed at the North East England Stem Cell Institute in Newcastle, in

which

stem cells from his good eye were used to repair his damaged one.

 

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