{"id":22873,"date":"2016-02-28T20:48:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T04:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/a-blind-woman-has-regained-sight-following-a-controversial-stem-cell-treatment"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:08:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:08:33","slug":"a-blind-woman-has-regained-sight-following-a-controversial-stem-cell-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/a-blind-woman-has-regained-sight-following-a-controversial-stem-cell-treatment","title":{"rendered":"A blind woman has regained sight following a controversial stem cell treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-blind-woman-has-regained-sight-following-a-controversial-stem-cell-treatment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vanna Belton from Baltimore has been blind for more than five years, but after undergoing surgery where stem cells extracted from her bone marrow were injected into her right eye\u2019s retina and left eye\u2019s optic nerve, she has regained some of her sight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I realised I could see the license plates, we started walking around the neighbourhood reading them,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/health\/bs-hs-stem-cells-for-eyes-20160201-story.html\">she told the <em>Baltimore Sun,<\/em><\/a> adding that for the first time since 2009, she\u2019s been able to navigate her way around without a cane.<\/p>\n<p>While Belton\u2019s recovery is certainly remarkable, it\u2019s also incredibly perplexing. The doctor who performed the stem cell treatment, ophthalmologist Jeffrey N. Weiss, cut so many corners to get her and 277 other patients into surgery, even he can\u2019t explain why it works.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-blind-woman-has-regained-sight-thanks-to-a-controversial-stem-cell-treatment\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-blind-woman-has-regained-sight...-treatment<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanna Belton from Baltimore has been blind for more than five years, but after undergoing surgery where stem cells extracted from her bone marrow were injected into her right eye\u2019s retina and left eye\u2019s optic nerve, she has regained some of her sight. \u201cWhen I realised I could see the license plates, we started walking [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22873","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68210,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22873\/revisions\/68210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}