Kobe City Eye Hospital head Yasuo Kurimoto attends a press conference in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture on Oct. 16, 2020. Kurimoto announced that they had performed a transplant surgery of retinal pigmentary degeneration using retinal sheet made from iPS cells, a
Kobe City Eye Hospital head Yasuo Kurimoto (L) attends a press conference in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture on Oct. 16, 2020. Kurimoto announced that they had performed a transplant surgery of retinal pigmentary degeneration using retinal sheet made from iPS cells, an induced pluripotent stem cell, for the first time in the world.??? ( The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )