Dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), an as-yet untreatable eye disease that causes blindness in older adults, made headlines last year when Massachusetts-based biotech Advanced Cell Technology ...

A diagram of a healthy macula, dry macular degeneration ... vision recovery in a trial using stem cells to form light-detecting or photoreceptor cells in the eye. In this study, the researchers ...

Inflammatory eye diseases can be challenging to treat ... The team discovered that local injections of mesenchymal stem cells into periocular tissue can significantly reduce inflammation in conditions ...

Age-related macular degeneration patients who received injections of retinal cells derived from donors’ induced pluripotent stem cells have maintained their level of eyesight for a year. Jef Akst was ...