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‘TWO PATIENTS BLINDNESS REVERSED AFTER SCIENTISTS make a breakthrough in the cure for UK’s most common cause of sight loss effectively reversing the effects of age-related blindness’.
The technique could reverse the effect of the most common form of sight loss in the UK and lead to “off-the-shelf” remedies
The study saw older people regain their sight after it had degenerated
Scientists are on the verge of a breakthrough treatment for sight loss which could reverse the effects of age-related blindness.
Two patients suffering from the most common form of sight loss in the UK have successfully regained their reading vision – and boffins are hopeful that it could lead to an ‘off-the-shelf’ treatment in the next five years.
The groundbreaking clinical study saw a man in his early 80s and a woman in her early 60s received a new stem cell-based treatment for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a condition which leads to a rapid loss of central vision.
It is the first time an engineered piece of tissue has been successfully used to treat people with sudden severe sight loss.
The study into AMD – a condition which affects more than 600,000 people in the UK – is a major milestone for the London Project to Cure Blindness. Source-.mirror