{"id":198965,"date":"2024-11-08T23:22:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T05:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/worlds-first-stem-cell-treatment-restores-vision-in-cornea-damaged-patients"},"modified":"2024-11-08T23:22:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T05:22:46","slug":"worlds-first-stem-cell-treatment-restores-vision-in-cornea-damaged-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/worlds-first-stem-cell-treatment-restores-vision-in-cornea-damaged-patients","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first stem cell treatment restores vision in cornea-damaged patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-stem-cell-treatment-restores-vision-in-cornea-damaged-patients2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three individuals with profoundly impaired vision who got stem-cell transplants have seen significant improvements in their eyesight that have lasted for more than a year, marking a significant advancement in the restoration of blind vision.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth person with very compromised vision saw improvement, although it did not last.<\/p>\n<p>These four are the first to receive transplants of reprogrammed stem cells to heal injured corneas, the eye\u2019s clear outer surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three individuals with profoundly impaired vision who got stem-cell transplants have seen significant improvements in their eyesight that have lasted for more than a year, marking a significant advancement in the restoration of blind vision. A fourth person with very compromised vision saw improvement, although it did not last. These four are the first to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198965","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}