Patients with dry age-related macular degeneration who underwent subretinal transplantation of retinal pigment epithelial cells derived from human embryonic stem cells experienced stable or improved vision.
“OpRegen eyes appear to tolerate the transplanted cells, may have restored retinal outer layer anatomy, may have slowed geographic atrophy progression, and may have stable or improved vision while anatomic and visual consequences of the disease appear to progress in the untreated fellow eyes,” Christopher D. Riemann, MD, said at the virtual American Academy of Ophthalmology
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