The paper, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found stem cell surgeries reverse eye damage caused by chemical burns. The 76 percent success rate (82 out of 107 eyes had sight ...
The treatment worked completely in 82 of 107 eyes and partially in 14 others. LOS ANGELES — Dozens of people who were blinded or otherwise suffered severe eye damage when they were splashed with ...
LOS ANGELES -- Dozens of people who were blinded or otherwise suffered severe eye damage when they were splashed with caustic chemicals had their sight restored with transplants of their own stem ...
For decades, restoring sight after severe eye damage sat firmly in the realm of science fiction. Now a wave of converging advances, from gene editing and stem cells to microchips and laser-based ...
LOS ANGELES - Dozens of people who were blinded or otherwise suffered severe eye damage when they were splashed with caustic chemicals had their sight restored with transplants of their own stem cells ...
Researchers from Bonn and Basel have developed a new method to equip human retinal organoids – small, lab-grown models of the retina – with artificial blood vessel structures. These vascularized ...
WEBB CITY, Mo. -- Rylea Barlett was born blind six years ago. Her optic nerves did not develop. She was diagnosed when she was a few months old. Doctor after doctor gave her no hope of ever seeing. On ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As part of a national “moonshot” to cure blindness, researchers at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus will receive as much as $46 million in federal funding over ...
Researchers at the Eye Genetics Research Unit at Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI) are the first in the world to use stem cells to study one of the genetic causes of Leber Congenital ...