Before treatment, the 51-year-old graphic artist was legally blind, unable to read a single letter on a standard eye chart. She has suffered from Stargardt’s disease, the most common form of macular degeneration in young patients, since she was a teenager, and it was getting progressively worse.
A second patient, aged 78, suffered from dry macular degeneration — the leading cause of blindness in the elderly — and could not even see well enough to go shopping.
But after being treated with stem cells from a donated human embryo, both women have improved dramatically, researchers revealed.
MY MOM IS BLIND FOR ABOUT 4 YEARS..I NEED TO KNOW WHERE THEY CAN HELP HER WITH THIS WE WANT HER TO SEE AGAIN
In which country are you?
SCIENTISTS have partly reversed blindness in two patients after giving them a treatment based on human embryonic stem cells. This research is still in experimental phase as the article states. These trials were conducted in USA and for more information you can go online for sites of stem cell therapy for blindness and the contacts. I’ll also try to find more information regarding this. Where do you live?