Clinical research using iPS cells approved

Clinical research using iPS cells approved

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in February 2013 shows Masayo Takahashi (2nd from L), an ophthalmologist who heads Riken's research team on retinal regeneration, and other researchers seeing an experiment on cultured stem cells in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. On June 26, 2013, a Japanese government panel approved a clinical research plan by the Riken governmental scientific research institute and the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation to use human induced pluripotent stem cells, known as iPS cells, for regenerating retinas. It would be the world's first clinical research using iPS cells that can grow into any type of human body tissue.

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