00:02Blindness affects millions of people around the world.
00:05But now scientists say that certain cells taken from the deceased could cure those who can't see.
00:10Retinal pigment epithelium, or RPE, are cells in the eyes that regulate light receptors
00:15and move things our eyes need, like nutrients to our eyes, and move waste away from them.
00:19And dysfunction in the RPE is the leading cause of blindness in around 200 million people all over the world.
00:25But now scientists from the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in Israel say
00:29they have used stem cells to regrow these retinal cells in monkeys.
00:32Dr. Timothy Blankensopp, the study's co-authors, said about the findings.
00:36Human cadaver donor-derived cells can be safely transplanted underneath the retina and replace host function
00:41and therefore may be a promising source for rescuing vision in patients with retina diseases.
00:46With Blankensopp adding,
00:47What is more, the stem-cell-derived RPE partially took over the function of the monkey RPE
00:52and was able to support normal photoreceptor function.
00:55The next step, they say, is testing this on primates who suffer from blindness linked to RPE.
01:00The study's results were published in the journal Stem Cell Reports.
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