Stem Cell Therapy Repairs Eye Damage

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New stem cell therapy could repair 'irreversible' and blinding eye damage, trial finds

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A new stem cell therapy has repaired blinding damage to the cornea in 93% of patients in an early clinical trial.

The treatment was initially tested in 2018 in a small clinical trial at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear hospital in Boston .

The new therapy can only treat patients who are blind in one eye, as it relies on using stem cells from their remaining healthy eye.

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