{"id":128995,"date":"2021-10-14T15:23:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T22:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/reversing-blindness-with-stem-cells"},"modified":"2021-10-14T15:23:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T22:23:27","slug":"reversing-blindness-with-stem-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/reversing-blindness-with-stem-cells","title":{"rendered":"Reversing blindness with stem cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reversing-blindness-with-stem-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gamm cautions against expecting too much, too soon. \u201cIt\u2019s unreasonable to think that we are going to cure blindness in general, just like we\u2019re not going to cure cancer with one magic bullet,\u201d he says. \u201cWhat we hope to do is make a meaningful change in a patient\u2019s visual function, such that their activities of daily life are improved.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Regenerative therapies for the eyes could help to save vision in people with glaucoma, macular degeneration and damaged corneas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamm cautions against expecting too much, too soon. \u201cIt\u2019s unreasonable to think that we are going to cure blindness in general, just like we\u2019re not going to cure cancer with one magic bullet,\u201d he says. \u201cWhat we hope to do is make a meaningful change in a patient\u2019s visual function, such that their activities of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}