{"id":209214,"date":"2025-03-20T00:13:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/stem-cell-injection-may-soon-reverse-vision-loss-caused-by-age-related-macular-degeneration"},"modified":"2025-03-20T00:13:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:13:01","slug":"stem-cell-injection-may-soon-reverse-vision-loss-caused-by-age-related-macular-degeneration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/stem-cell-injection-may-soon-reverse-vision-loss-caused-by-age-related-macular-degeneration","title":{"rendered":"Stem Cell Injection May Soon Reverse Vision Loss Caused By Age-Related Macular Degeneration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stem-cell-injection-may-soon-reverse-vision-loss-caused-by-age-related-macular-degeneration2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Contact: Cara Martinez<\/i> | Email: <a href=\"mailto:cara.martinez@cshs.org\">cara.martinez@cshs.org<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Los Angeles \u2014 April 14, 2015<\/b> \u2013 An injection of stem cells into the eye may soon slow or reverse the effects of early-stage age-related macular degeneration, according to new research from scientists at Cedars-Sinai. Currently, there is no treatment that slows the progression of the disease, which is the leading cause of vision loss in people over 65.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first study to show preservation of vision after a single injection of induced neural progenitor stem cells into a AMD-like rat model for retinal degeneration,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cedars-sinai.edu\/Research\/Faculty-Directory\/Bios\/Shaomei-Wang-MD-PhD.aspx\">Shaomei Wang, MD, PhD<\/a>, lead author of the study published in the journal <i>STEM CELLS<\/i> and a research scientist in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cedars-sinai.edu\/Research\/Departments-and-Institutes\/Regenerative-Medicine-Institute\/RMI-Current-Research\/Eye-Program.aspx\">Eye Program<\/a> at the Cedars-Sinai <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cedars-sinai.edu\/Research\/Departments-and-Institutes\/Regenerative-Medicine-Institute\/\">Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact: Cara Martinez | Email: cara.martinez@cshs.org Los Angeles \u2014 April 14, 2015 \u2013 An injection of stem cells into the eye may soon slow or reverse the effects of early-stage age-related macular degeneration, according to new research from scientists at Cedars-Sinai. Currently, there is no treatment that slows the progression of the disease, which is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209214","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}