Nobel winner Shinya Yamanaka's stem cell research to be used for retina damage trial
Photo credit: AP | Kyoto University Professor Shinya Yamanaka receives a call from Japanese Prime Minister Toshihiko Noda to congratulate him for winning the Nobel Prize in Medicine along with British researcher John B. Gurdon. (Oct. 8, 2012)
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Stem cells derived from a mouse's skin won Shinya Yamanaka the Nobel Prize Monday. Now researchers in Japan are seeking to use his pioneering technology for an even greater prize: restoring sight.
Scientists at the Riken Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe plan to use so-called induced pluripotent stem cells in a trial among patients with macular degeneration, a disease in which the retina...
