Sentences with phrase «restoring human vision»
These findings support a path to improving clinical applications in restoring human vision lost to degenerative eye diseases.
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But it was another three decades before Klassen — who has used retinal progenitor cells to restore vision in mice, cats, dogs and pigs — could conduct human trials involving retinitis pigmentosa.
Clinical trials have shown that injection of human umbilical stem cells, or hUTC, into the retina helps preserve and restore vision in macular degeneration patients.
When transplanted to an animal model of corneal blindness, these tissues are shown to repair the front of the eye and restore vision, which scientists say could pave the way for human clinical trials of anterior eye transplantation to restore lost or damaged vision.
She works under the direct supervision of Dr. Lamba to conduct research to develop strategies to restore vision in mouse models generated to mimic human retinal degeneration diseases.
The findings support a path to improving clinical applications, specifically for restoring vision in humans by allowing photoreceptors derived from human stem cells to integrate and thrive in the eye.
Dr. Franklin, the 10th president of Morehouse College, the nation's largest liberal arts college for men, has written several books on social issues, including Crisis in the Village: Restoring Hope in African American Communities (2007); Another Day's Journey: Black Churches Confronting the American Crisis (1997); and Liberating Visions: Human Fulfillment and Social Justice in African American Thought (1990).