{"id":25451,"date":"2016-05-06T21:47:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T04:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/japanese-scientists-have-used-skin-cells-to-restore-a-patients-vision-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:59:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:59:30","slug":"japanese-scientists-have-used-skin-cells-to-restore-a-patients-vision-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/japanese-scientists-have-used-skin-cells-to-restore-a-patients-vision-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Japanese scientists have used skin cells to restore a patient\u2019s vision for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japanese-scientists-have-used-skin-cells-to-restore-a-patients-vision-for-the-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japanese scientists have reported the first successful skin-to-eye stem cell transplant in humans, where stem cells derived from a patient\u2019s skin were transplanted into her eye to partially restore lost vision.<\/p>\n<p>The patient, a 70-year-old woman diagnosed with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/australian-scientists-to-begin-trialling-fully-implantable-bionic-eye\">age-related macular degeneration (AMD)<\/a> \u2013 the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visionaustralia.org\/eye-health\/eye-conditions\/age-related-macular-degeneration\">leading cause of vision impairment<\/a> in older people \u2013 received the experimental treatment back in 2014 as part of a pilot study. Now, closing in on two years after the transplant took place, the scientists are sharing the results.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers took a small piece of skin from her arm (4 mm in diameter) and modified its cells, effectively reprogramming them into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/japanese-scientists-have-used-skin-cells-to-restore-a-patient-s-vision-for-the-first-time\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/japanese-scientists-have-used-sk...first-time<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese scientists have reported the first successful skin-to-eye stem cell transplant in humans, where stem cells derived from a patient\u2019s skin were transplanted into her eye to partially restore lost vision. The patient, a 70-year-old woman diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) \u2013 the leading cause of vision impairment in older people \u2013 received the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25451","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=25451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50567,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25451\/revisions\/50567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}