Dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), an as-yet untreatable eye disease that causes blindness in older adults, made headlines last year when Massachusetts-based biotech Advanced Cell Technology ...

Age-related macular degeneration patients who received injections of retinal cells derived from donors’ induced pluripotent stem cells have maintained their level of eyesight for a year. Jef Akst was ...

These four are the first to receive transplants of reprogrammed stem cells to heal injured corneas, the eye’s clear outer ...

How are induced pluripotent stem ... cell lines established in earlier studies were derived from fibroblasts. Can iPS cells be established from other somatic cell types? If so, at what frequency?