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More than 10 million people in the United States are blind or visually impaired, and 50,000 more will become blind each year. The results of a survey conducted by the American Foundation for the Blind indicate that people with diabetes fear blindness even more than premature death.¹ Retinal repair by means of the transplantation of photoreceptor precursors, recently described by MacLaren and colleagues,² thus holds hope for many people.

Blindness is often caused by degenerative conditions in which the sensory cells in the retina deteriorate and die. Such conditions include retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration. Photoreceptors do not divide . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

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