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British researchers hope to make stem-cell treatment of blindness caused by macular degeneration routine within a decade. Macular degeneration is the most common cause of blindness in older people and is believed to affect about 30 percent of 75-year-olds. Lyndon da Cruz of the University College London Institute of Opthamology has had some s