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Sep 23, 2019

Man given his eyesight back through stem cell treatment 25 years after acid attack left him blind

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Now 44, he has become the first patient to undergo a new life-changing eye surgery on the NHS, with doctors using stem cells from his healthy left eye to grow tissue in a lab and restore his sight.

Mr O’Brien said: “Being able to see through both eyes after all these years means the world to me.”

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