Patients with sudden severe sight loss from wet AMD have regained reading vision after being implanted with an engineered patch of retinal pigment epithelium cells derived from stem cells.
The study, conducted by the London Project to Cure Blindness, investigated whether a stem cell based patched could replenish diseased cells at the back of a patient’s affected eye. Two patients with the severe form of wet AMD, a woman in her early 60s and a man in his 80s, were implanted with the stem cell patch by a specially engineered (Read more...)
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