Transplants of eye cells grown from another's iPS stem cells to begin

Masayo Takahashi of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology speaks at a press conference in Kobe on Feb. 6, 2017. A Japanese research team, led by Takahashi, said it will begin the world's first clinical trials involving transplanting retinal cells grown from iPS stem cells obtained from another person. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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