Posted on 04/28/2005 10:40:35 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er
Doctors have taken stem cells from a dead donor and transplanted them into a blind woman, allowing her to see for the first time in years.
The pioneering surgery was carried out on Deborah Catlyn, who was blind in one eye through a childhood accident and lost the sight in her other eye after acid was thrown in her face at a nightclub.
She feared she would never see her new daughter, Miracle, but just a month after the baby was born, Deborah had the operation.
Surgeons grew the cells in a laboratory to form a thin layer and after 12 days the sheet of stem cells was draped over the front of Deborah's eye and held in place by a biological bandage made from part of a placenta.
Within three weeks the bandage melted away, leaving the stem cells to repair the cornea - the transparent window at the front of the eye.
Deborah had been told she would be blind for life but her sight is now good enough for her to drive.
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Thank you for posting this. It really does seem miraculous.
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Adult,Indeed. This is magical. Can't wait till we get the hang of this adult stem cell use.
Making blind people see from a clump of adult cells astonishes me.
I can't believe this wasn't posted, and that more people aren't talking about this.
I guess liberal celebrities aren't really the expert scientists I thought they were.
That's why it won't get reported. No fun unless babies die.
Welcome.
I wish they could do this for bad lungs.
I hope somebody is experimenting.
So this begs the question: Why didn't they use her own adult stem cells, instead of harvesting them from the dead?
Not sure.
Maybe they were extracted from a very delicate place?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1472676,00.html#article_continue
More indepth article including info on using patients' own stem cells.
Yet another miracle of modern medicine which did not require that a baby die first. Will wonders never cease?
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