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Take eye of frog, then add science ...
Japanese scientists say they have succeeded in growing the world's first artificial eyeballs.
A group of researchers led by Makoto Asashima, professor of biology at Tokyo University, succeeded in growing the eyeballs in tadpoles using cells from frog embryos, the Kyodo news agency said at the weekend.
"Since the basics of body-making is common to that of human beings, I think this might help enable people to regain vision in the future," Professor Asashima said.
The group, after soaking undifferentiated cells from the embryo of a Platanna frog in a special medium, transplanted the eyeball into a tadpole whose left eye had been removed before it was hatched, the agency reported.
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A week after the transplant, Professor Asashima's group confirmed the tadpole's eyeball was connected to the optic nerves and there were no rejection symptoms.
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