Stem Cells Treat Macular Degeneration in Rats
Filed in archive Diagnostics, Methodologies and Instrumentation , Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics , Stem Cells by ruth on September 23, 2006
"We have developed a technology that we hope can be used to treat degenerative eye diseases such as macular degeneration," said Dr. Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts, who led the study.
"We have demonstrated that these human embryonic-stem-cell-derived cells can rescue visual function in animals that otherwise would have gone blind," Lanza said in an e-mail.
In another report, ACT medical director Robert Lanza says they intend to seek permission from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration next year to use stem cells to treat people with macular degeneration, and estimates that it could take a couple of years or more before it could be confirmed whether this technology may indeed work in humans.
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