Lab grown ‘mini eyes’ help scientists understand rare genetic condition that causes blindness

[staarker]

The eyes of the scientific community are firmly fixed on London. Scientists at University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH) report they’ve grown miniature human eyes, making it much easier to study and understand the development and progression of blindness in the rare genetic disease known as Usher syndrome. 

These 3D “mini eyes” are called organoids, and were grown using stem cells generated via skin samples donated by patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH). https://studyfinds.org/lab-grown-mini-e ... -syndrome/

[mr_iqman]

We are truly living in some amazing times now. Just think...things like blindness could be a thing of the past soon. Perhaps even in my lifetime. It is an amazing time to be alive now.