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Optic Nerve Transection: A Model of Adult Neuron Apoptosis in the Central Nervous System
Published on: May 12, 2011
From repair to relay: Human retinal organoids re-couple a severed optic nerve
Kevin Achberger1, Stefan Liebau1
1Institute of Neuroanatomy and Developmental Biology (INDB), Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Oesterbergstrasse 3, 72074 Tübingen, Germany.
Cell Stem Cell
|July 2, 2026
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Restoring vision after complete optic nerve transection has long seemed out of reach. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Gong et al.1 now show that human retinal organoids transplanted into the lesion form a chimeric host-graft bridge capable of supporting partial, graft-dependent visual function in adult rats.
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