Health: Abortion Row Fears over Eye Cure

Society | October 29, 2004, Friday // 00:00

US scientists have successfully restored a woman's vision using eye cells taken from aborted foetuses.

But while hailing their results as a triumph, the University of Louisville researchers are worried critics will say they are promoting abortion. The findings appear in New Scientist magazine.

Elisabeth Bryant's sight was restored by a transplant of retinal cells taken from the eyes of aborted foetuses. The transformation appears not to have been a short-term effect, as the team who carried out the operation had feared.

So far, six patients with degenerative diseases of the eye - either advanced retinitis pigmentosa or another disease called macular degeneration - have received similar transplants in the US.

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