Eyes grown in dish from cells
Embryonic eyes have been grown from cells in a dish by scientists. The pouch-like "optic cups" grew spontaneously from transformed, self-organising embryonic stem cells taken from mice.
The achievement was described as "extraordinary" by British experts commenting on the research by Japanese scientists published in the journal Nature.
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