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Transplant restores Sight to Blind Mice

Photoreceptor cell transplants have restored the sight to blind mice

Photoreceptor cell transplants have restored the sight to blind mice, which may lead to future treatment in humans. A total of 457 animals and plants that have had their genome's mapped, the most recent of these is the sea urchin – but why is this spiny creature so important? Developing an iron oxide "sponge" to clean up water contaminated with naturally-occuring arsenic in south-east Asia. Recreating the conditions of Titaln's orange haze in the laboratory could tell us about Earth four billion years ago.

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This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

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