{"id":170058,"date":"2023-08-20T05:22:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T10:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-from-singapore-and-sweden-achieve-promising-results-towards-restoring-vision-in-blindness-caused-by-cellular-degeneration-in-the-eye"},"modified":"2023-08-20T05:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T10:22:50","slug":"scientists-from-singapore-and-sweden-achieve-promising-results-towards-restoring-vision-in-blindness-caused-by-cellular-degeneration-in-the-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-from-singapore-and-sweden-achieve-promising-results-towards-restoring-vision-in-blindness-caused-by-cellular-degeneration-in-the-eye","title":{"rendered":"Scientists from Singapore and Sweden achieve promising results towards restoring vision in blindness caused by cellular degeneration in the eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-from-singapore-and-sweden-achieve-promising-results-towards-restoring-vision-in-blindness-caused-by-cellular-degeneration-in-the-eye.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE, 14 April 2023 \u2013 A preclinical study using stem cells to produce progenitor photoreceptor cells\u2014light-detecting cells found in the eye\u2014and then transplanting these into experimental models of damaged retinas has resulted in significant vision recovery. This finding, by scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School, the Singapore Eye Research Institute and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, marks a first step towards potentially restoring vision in eye diseases characterised by photoreceptor loss.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Research reveals a promising stem cell approach to correct photoreceptor cell degeneration, which underlies several forms of visual decline and blindness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE, 14 April 2023 \u2013 A preclinical study using stem cells to produce progenitor photoreceptor cells\u2014light-detecting cells found in the eye\u2014and then transplanting these into experimental models of damaged retinas has resulted in significant vision recovery. This finding, by scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School, the Singapore Eye Research Institute and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170058","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}