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Donors cells were adult skin cells, which have reprogrammed into an embryonic-like state
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Ophthalmologist K. Nishida's team created sheets of corneal cells from induced pluripotent stem cells.
iPS cells were discovered by stem-cell biologist Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University.
Patient was a Japanese woman, whose vision has improved since the transplant.
Japanese health ministry gave Nishida permission to try the procedure on four people.
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Professor, Nobel prize winner and stem cell researcher, Senior scientific advisor to Altos Labs
