An Eye for Stem Cells | The Scientist: Dry age-related macular degeneration, an as-yet untreatable eye disease that causes blindness in older adults, made headlines last year when Massachusetts-based biotech Advanced Cell Technology launched a human embryonic stem cell (hESC) trial for the disease, marking only the third hESC trial approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Now, two new trials are set to get underway—one also using hESCs and another that is turning to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), derived from adult skin cells.
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