KYOTO A team of Japanese doctors recently performed a landmark surgery involving the use of donated induced pluripotent stem, or iPS cells, to treat macular degeneration, an intractable eye disease.
The operation, which used cells gathered and prepared ahead of time, was performed at Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital as part of a joint project also involving researchers from Riken and Kyoto University's Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, or CiRA.
