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Researchers plan to treat blindness by raising mini-eyes in the lab and using it in patients.

Lab-grown eyes can help scientists treat blindness-related diseases, according to technatechnology and technology newsservice. Using stem cells from children with Usher syndrome, researchers from University College London managed to breed an artificial retina in a laboratory.

These mini-eyes and their use in patients with Usher syndrome helped scientists understand how the disease and retinal degeneration. In these patients, retinal degeneration is one of the main causes of blindness. That's why the use of bred eyes can help around 30,000 of these patients in the UK. In this study, stem cells were taken from patients with this syndrome.

The next step was to plan these cells in the laboratory and create other stem cells. To do this, they examined the process of forming babies in the mother's abdomen within nine months and then developed a detailed pattern to see what problems were caused in people with this syndrome, leading to blindness and hearing loss in the following years. In this imitation, seven types of cells were taher. In this study, it was found that molar cells in the retina are affected due to genetic defects and will die in the future.