title: Stem cells set their sights on retinitis pigmentosa.
abstract: Skin cells from a patient with a form of inherited blindness have been reprogrammed into retinal cells and successfully transplanted into mice.
authors.affiliation: is at the F.M. Kirby Center for Molecular Ophthalmology , University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine , Philadelphia , United States jbennice@mail.med.upenn.edu.
authors.forename: Jeannette L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Bennicelli
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bennett
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D057026:Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D020419:Photoreceptor Cells, Vertebrate / Q000473:pathology*; D012174:Retinitis Pigmentosa / Q000473:pathology*
keywords: Human; Mouse; induced pluripotent stem cells; ophthalmology; retinal cell differentiation; retinal degeneration; retinal transplantation; retinitis pigmentosa