Bringing stem cells to patients: Treating age-related blindness

Learn about the ongoing stem cell-based clinical trials to treat the most common form of age-related blindness, macular degeneration. This public symposium features a team of doctors, scientists and engineers from USC, Caltech, City of Hope and the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as a patient whose vision improved after participating in the clinical trials supported by the state’s stem cell agency, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).

[@ppmartorella1]

This absolutely MUST be made available and MUST be legalized in the US with potential insurance coverage. I cannot stress more about the importance of stem cell implantations for eye diseases.

[@mrscch1057]

Praying for this to be available. As someone who has geographic atrophy I can only pray...

[@marysmith3710]

The main focus is commercializing this process. They can be treated. Taking what's in nature & using it doesn’t cost millions of dollars. 😊

[@lopitabanerjee3785]

Hi I am from India,my only daughter has rp.doesvit work on rp...if yes when will we get the treatment and will it come to India also?

[@antonywooster6783]

12:36 Getting multi-disciplinary teams to work together well. When Ernest Ruterford was, very successfully, running the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge UK in the 1930s, he instituted a tea-break. Every afternoon, the Laboratory provided cups of tea and small cakes, to everyone working there and the only condition was, that you had to sit next to someone who was working in a different field. History records that, that laboratory produced an astonishing range of developments and fundamental discoveries in a very short space of time.

[@punodelgato9001]

Im entering the advanced stages of RP. I hope this qorks. Im not evn 30 yet.

[@virginiasanmiguel9930]

TY,TY,TY from the bottom of my heart for the research u r doing to help so many. My father had macular n went blind. I now am also battling wet macular. I’m so deviated because Its taking my independence . I hope u have a new treatment other than injections. May God bless everyone who is involved in helping us gain sight. 🙏🏻❤

[@jamescrawford9643]

I have AMD for 5yrs now and have kept it at bay by doing Eye Exercises and taking Eye Nutrients and good veggies for my Eyes. If I stop AMD goes right back to progression within 2 days. I do hope this corrective Medical practice does formulate a remedy for AMD.
I do have floaters that I can live with.

[@murrayroadstrong]

Outstanding!!

[@uuuu2843]

Bring first sir lot of peoples waiting

[@uuuu2843]

I had CSCR I lost some colour vision and night vision,

[@charlesgao]

Does it work for Glaucoma?

[@davidlo168888]

You mean normal tension or high tension POAG (primary open angle glaucoma)?
Western medication forever can't effectively treat and reverse POAG.

[@anjeltsonis2125]

I have macular degeneration AMD wet.Who should I talk to

[@ChinkyChyna]

When will spots become avail for the study research