BBC NEWS | Health | Stem cell therapy for eye disease: "The team has already repaired the vision of a handful of patients with age-related macular degeneration using cells from the patients' own eyes.
With the help of a �4m donation, they are now planning to carry out the same operation using retinal cells grown from stem cells in the lab.
It is hoped the first patients would be treated within five years.
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) affects around 25% of over-60s in the UK to some degree and causes blindness in 14 million people across Europe."
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