Blind Mice See Again After Cell Transplants

Korbinus writes, "Scientists have managed to restore vision in blind mice by transplanting light-sensitive cells in their eyes, cells on their way to become photoreceptors. This might be a important step towards new treatments of eye disease."

I wonder ...

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder if this procedure will work for Republicans? :-)

one down

[Anonymous Coward]

Thr^H^H^HTwo blind mice.

awesome!

[chaos421]

...and here i thought the future of vision was a gold-plated bananaclip visor.

Dashed childhood

[Centurix]

"Holy crap, look at the size of that carving knife! Run!"

Blind mice

[Anonymous Coward]

Now if they could just help them regenerate the tails the farmers wife cut off the mice will be whole again.

three blind mice...

[quickpick]

I guess they don't have any excuse now.

Not Only the Democrats Have One

[zensufi]

I for one welcome our new seeing mouse overlords.

Cell Transplants?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sony was right, Cell can do anything!

In other news...

[realmolo]

Surgeons have succeeded in transplanting a frog's brain into a cloned copy of The Handsome Prince's body.

This comes after last weeks news that Little Miss Muffet didn't know what a "tuffet" was at the time of the incident with the spider, and that her subsequent testimony was completely fabricated by her lawyers.

Three Spliced Mice

[Etherwalk]

Three blind mice, three blind mice,
See how they run, see how they run,
They all ran after the lab tech's wife,
were given new sight with one gene splice,
saw her and ran for the rest of their life.
The three spliced mice.

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(No offense to the lab tech's wives out there. =))

Barny Google

[Joebert]

What if somthing goes wrong & the cells become cancerous ?
Would someone have to walk around looking like this [warriorlibrarian.com] ?