Embryonic stem cells improve sight of legally blind women (page 2)
Scientists have improved the eyesight of two people who were nearly blind by injecting their eyes with stem cells from human embryos. One patient, a 51-year-old graphic artist, had suffered from Stargardt's disease, the most common form of macular degeneration in young patients, since she was a teenager. Her condition had progressively worsened to the point she was unable to read a single letter on a standard eye chart and was legally blind. A second patient, aged 78, suffered from dry macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the elderly, and was also legally blind. The two volunteers showed no signs of adverse effects from the therapy, the scientists said. The results of the initial tests, which were aimed at evaluating whether the treatment is safe, were reported Monday in The Lancet, and are the first published results of human embryonic stem cell therapy used to improve eyesight. Embryonic stem cells are highly versatile cells found in early-stage embryos that can differentiate into any ti
Embryonic stem cells improve sight of legally blind women
Two women who had gone legally blind from untreatable eye diseases had dramatic improvements in their vision after injections of human embryonic stem cells, making it the first documented time ...
Mon 23 Jan 12 from CNN
First patients shown to improve with embryonic stem cells
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Before treatment, the 51-year-old graphic artist was legally blind, unable to read a single letter on a standard eye chart. She has suffered from Stargardt's disease, the ...
Mon 23 Jan 12 from Reuters
Small Stem Cell Study Claims Early Success in Treating Eye Disease
MONDAY, Jan. 23 (HealthDay News) — Using human embryonic stem cells to treat the eye disease macular degeneration appears to be safe and leads to some vision improvement, a small, early-stage ...
Tue 24 Jan 12 from Health News
Preliminary Report Says Stem Cells Safe, Effective
A report shows that patients in a trial had measurable improvements in their vision that persisted for more than four months because of stem cell treatments.
Tue 24 Jan 12 from Laboratory Equipment
Stem Cells for Blindness
File this one under “encouraging but preliminary.” Published in The Lancet - researchers report the results of two patients with two different forms of macular degeneration (the ...
Tue 24 Jan 12 from NeuroLogica
Vision improves modestly in patients after human embryonic stem cells transplants
By Cynthia Lee - Researchers at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute and colleagues who successfully transplanted specialized retinal cells derived from human embryonic stem cells into the ...
Mon 23 Jan 12 from HealthCanal
Stem Cells: New Hope for Macular Degeneration
Two legally blind women with macular degeneration are the first to get new retinal cells grown from embryonic stem cells. And instead of getting progressively blinder, the women now see a little ...
Mon 23 Jan 12 from WebMD
Will Stem Cell Retinal Transplants Cause Blindness (in critics)?
Mon 23 Jan 12 from Emaxhealth
Study: Stem cells may aid vision in blind people
Two women who are legally blind from two different incurable conditions appeared to gain some vision after receiving an experimental treatment using embryonic stem cells. Experts caution that ...
Tue 24 Jan 12 from R&D Mag
Promising Results In First-ever Trial Of Stem Cell Therapy For The Blind
Scientists have improved the eyesight of two people who were nearly blind by injecting their eyes with stem cells from human embryos. One patient, a 51-year-old graphic artist, had suffered ...
Tue 24 Jan 12 from RedOrbit
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