Genesis (in press) (2010). <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Yongqing Liu, Ph.D. <br />Assistant Professor <br />Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences <br />The promise of tissue regeneration to repair spinal cord injury, retinal degeneration, neural degenerative diseases including Parkinson??s and heart damage have led to experiments where stem cells have been transplanted into damaged tissues