{"id":77028,"date":"2018-03-19T14:03:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T21:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/retinal-patch-with-stem-cells-treats-macular-degeneraiton"},"modified":"2018-03-19T14:03:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T21:03:44","slug":"retinal-patch-with-stem-cells-treats-macular-degeneraiton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/retinal-patch-with-stem-cells-treats-macular-degeneraiton","title":{"rendered":"Retinal patch with stem cells treats macular degeneraiton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hZe7VxtuQB0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>March 19 (UPI) \u2014 Researchers in California have developed a retinal patch with stem cells to improve the vision of people with age-related macular degeneration.<\/p>\n<p>In a clinical trial, researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara implanted the stem cell-derived ocular cells in two patients over the course of 12 months, publishing the results of the study <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nbt.4114\" target=\"_blank\">Monday in the journal<\/a> in Nature Biotechnology.<\/p>\n<p>Macular degeneration, which affects the central, or reading, vision while leaving the surrounding vision normal, usually affects people over 50 years of age. The <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/visionhealth\/basics\/ced\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> estimates that 1.8 million Americans aged 40 years and older have AMD, and it\u2019s the leading cause of permanent impairment of close-up vision among people aged 65 years and older.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Health_News\/2018\/03\/19\/Retinal-patch-with-stem-cells-treats-macular-degeneraiton\/3501521479069\/\">https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Health_News\/2018\/03\/19\/Retinal-patch-wit...521479069\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 19 (UPI) \u2014 Researchers in California have developed a retinal patch with stem cells to improve the vision of people with age-related macular degeneration. In a clinical trial, researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara implanted the stem cell-derived ocular cells in two patients over the course of 12 months, publishing the results [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77028","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\/77028","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}