Restoring sight to the blind is, literally, a miracle. For centuries, men have told stories of miracles in which a blind person suddenly was able to see again. In modern times, there have been cases ...

Two legally blind women appeared to gain some vision after receiving an experimental treatment using embryonic stem cells, scientists reported Monday. While embryonic stem cells were first isolated ...

University of Vermont start-up company E.A.S.Y. LLC has received a $1 million Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a commercial prototype ...

LOS ANGELES – Two legally blind women appeared to gain some vision after receiving an experimental treatment using embryonic stem cells, scientists reported Monday. While embryonic stem cells were ...

Three patients at a Florida clinic went blind after receiving eye injections of stem cells derived from their own abdominal fat, according to a report Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

On her Youtube channel, Dr. Nancy Alvarez can be seen talking about stem cell therapies. “When I started getting that pain, I wanted to die,” she said on a video streamed on May 4, adding, “...I was ...

Without a doubt, the treatment potential of stem cell therapies is extraordinary. Yet, there is one hurdle scientists have been working to overcome: making sure the cells survive in the human body ...

YORKSHIRE, England, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A controversial transplant of stem cells derived from a human embryo may result in some vision improvement for three blind test subjects, U.S. researchers said.

Last year, a 77-year-old woman traveled to a clinic in Georgia to have stem cells injected in her eyes. She came in hope of a cure—or at least something that could help her macular degeneration, which ...

MINNEAPOLIS — When she was 6 or 7, Mona Minkara's eyesight began to fade. Eventually diagnosed with macular degeneration and cone rod dystrophy, the post-doctoral research fellow in the University of ...

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