Vision for the first time managed to recover with the help of stem cells – Moskovsky Komsomolets

New technology has helped 70-year-old woman

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Stem cells derived from skin cells allowed biologists to partially restore the vision of 70-year-old patient suffering from macular degeneration. As time has shown, the operation is carried out as far back as 2014, was a success.

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Macular degeneration is the most common cause of vision loss in older people, and the way to solve this problem for a long time looking for specialists

For operation, scientists took a small piece of skin about four millimeters in diameter with a patient hand and using technology previously developed modified them, turning it into a stem. Such a method is, firstly, allows to obtain the stem cells are ideal specific adult, and secondly avoids ethical issues that arise when talking about the use of

stem germ cells receiving the induced pluripotent stem cells experts then turned them into retinal tissue and transplanted into the patient. New fabrics have taken root, and after a while the vision of women has improved somewhat. No signs of retinal rejection or any other abnormalities in one and a half years was not found after the operation.

About the progress, researchers reported at the annual meeting of the study of the Association of Vision and Ophthalmology in Seattle.

Earlier, experts from the US and China for the first time successfully cured with stem cells and restore sight to cataract child. Even then, researchers have noted that the development of such technology could help to help tens of millions suffering from cataract for older people, but acknowledged that not all of the methods successfully applied to children, are just as effective with regard to older people. In this respect, a new success is a fairly significant breakthrough.